Walsh v. Bank of Moundville

As stated in the majority opinion of the court, the principle applicable on this appeal is the rule well settled that the person who owns the reversion when the rent of land fa-lls due is entitled to it, unless it was reserved or was severed before the reversion was transferred. Coffey v. Hunt, 75 Ala. 236; Tubb v. Fort, 58 Ala. 277; English v. Key, 39 Ala. 113,

The reversion here referred to is the right remaining in the lessor of land after the execution of the lease. A transfer of land therefore before the execution of the lease is not, in the nature of things, a transfer of the reversion…