reversionary annuity.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A good 8000£. a-year, and perhaps the title reversionary, or a still higher, would help me up with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

They could and did sponsor petitions to obtain reversionary interests in their estates but the monarch's permission was necessary before the petition could be granted.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

8000£. a-year, and perhaps the title reversionary, or a still higher, would help me up with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6] Reference

Similarly at Platform, borrowers are swapped onto what is called a reversionary rate, priced at a margin above base of between 1.5 per cent and 5 per cent.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

What conclusive evidence of the "reversionary" tendency in civilized man to a humbler state!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference

This was known as a reversionary grant.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

Fortune and family, and reversionary grandeur on my side!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

I received half his salary, and lived contentedly on his reversionary scraps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armadale] Reference

Then, if you marry not, how will the wretches creep to you for your reversionary dispositions!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

He was also given a reversionary interest in Mount Vernon, bequeathed to his half-brother Lawrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington: Farmer] Reference

The reply is -- "No, it belongs to us who are the reversionary heirs according to the will of his father.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

This was a legal device naming a successor (holder of the reversionary interest) to a designated property.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

Cornwall, upon which incident, and her continued celibacy, depend very much all my present reversionary hopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference

I could be mistaken, but I believe that reversionary interest is vested, therefore it is not subject to the Rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Should We Teach Law Students the Rule Against Perpetuities?] Reference

And the patron, as necessity requires, if property is to be protected, has in all circumstances the reversionary power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

It would always have a reversionary clause in it that when it ceased being used for a school, the title would revert to the donor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with John Raymond Shute, June 25, 1982. Interview B-0054-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

He was at the same time reversionary principal secretary of state for Ireland, a privy councilor, M.P. for Cork, provost of Trinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference

As Elizabeth's reversionary grants demonstrate, holding property was an excellent method of cementing political/religious alliances.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

Her reversionary grants to Northumberland present good evidence that she, like Mary, initially colluded with the Grey succession plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

'The reversionary interest of a life-crossing, with retail lucifer business attached,' is offered by a street-sweeper near the Bank of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference

She could solicit support from important politicians by championing their applications for reversionary grants of some of her property.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

On the death of original holder of the property, the land held in reversion would "revert" to whomsoever held the reversionary interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

It was to deprive these children of their reversionary right to the crown of Castile that the ambitious Sancho made war upon his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

The idea came to her that she might have some unexpected reversionary interest in her mother's money, on which she could raise something.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

If the freeholder understates the value of his reversionary interest, then the leaseholders are allowed to enfranchise under Leasehold Refrom Act at that lower value.    From Wordnik.com.  [LibDem Tax Policy: From Their Own Mouths] Reference

‘To speak frankly,’ said the poor vicar, with that hectic in his cheek that came with agitation, ‘I never fancied that my reversionary interest could be saleable.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wylder's Hand] Reference

These money transactions — these speculations in life and death — these silent battles for reversionary spoil — make brothers very loving towards each other in Vanity Fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

These latter variations, therefore, may fairly be regarded as reversionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

But EDS found that the correct operation of the reversionary lane depended on an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs] Reference

Baron had got a grant beyond sea, to come in before the reversionary of the Privy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 06: June/July 1660] Reference

Baron had got a grant beyond sea, to come in before the reversionary of the Privy Seal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

If the primary software lane failed, the system would "revert" to the backup reversionary lane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs] Reference

Well! he would, as far as might be, try the thing, while, presumably, a large reversionary interest in life was still his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary Portraits] Reference

EDS's report said that the most serious anomaly it found was in the Fadec's back-up software, known as the "reversionary lane".    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs] Reference

Periodicals sadly mortgaged the claims that Hazlitt, and many others of his contemporaries, had upon a vast reversionary estate of Fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference

He sold the reversionary rights in the Creith estates, and not only discharged at one sweep all his liabilities, but touched real money.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black] Reference