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Letters of reversion. Legal instruments.

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Scope Note: Reversion in Scottish law is the right to redeem (usually heritable) property. Letters of reversion in Scotland are the formal instruments made by persons holding other people's property in security for the repayment of debts, whereby they undertake to restore the property to the owner when the debt is settled. Source: 'A dictionary of English manuscript terminology 1450-2000'. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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