# Reversion

> Reversion defines the duration and quality of a person's interest in land

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:estates-tenure:reversion` |
| Family | Estates & Tenure |
| Domain | Governance |
| Era | Institutional Age → Collective Age |
| Kind | concept |
| Archetype | The Relation |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Reversion is a concept in the Estates & Tenure family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Reversion defines the duration and quality of a person's interest in land.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, occupant, buyer, seller, lender, investor, steward, regulator
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** rights, constraints, uses, relationships, consequences
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Reversion defines the duration and quality of a person's interest in land
- **Gift:** Clarity about reversion makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When reversion is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when reversion is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where reversion appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Reversion reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Reversion changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Reversion changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Reversion can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Relation enters the reading through Reversion. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What changes when Reversion becomes the unit of analysis?

**Guidance:** Shift scale, clock, stakeholder, boundary, and claim layer before choosing a move.

## Game function

Creates a graph move that changes the active map. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **Logistics Facility is governed by Reversion.** Logistics Facility is governed by Reversion through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Future Interest amplifies Reversion.** Future Interest amplifies Reversion through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Reversion conflicts with Remainder.** Reversion conflicts with Remainder through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Reversion externalizes to Access.** Reversion externalizes to Access through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Reversion through the lineage of Estates & Tenure: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Reversion: one dominant symbolic mechanism with a restrained secondary counterforce; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty, legal variation, regulatory sensitivity. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [Leasehold Property Overview](https://www.gov.uk/leasehold-property/overview) — Government of the United Kingdom; leasehold and freehold tenure.
- [Housing Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act](https://www.hud.gov/helping-americans/fair-housing-act-overview) — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; housing discrimination and protected classes.
