a failure to maintain a higher state | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
turning in the opposite direction | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
returning to a former state | |
(genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | |
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | |
(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) | |