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To give up, return, or yield. The word surrender presupposes the possession or ownership of the thing that is to be returned or given up. It indicates a transfer of title as well as possession, but it does not express or in any way suggest the transaction of a sale and delivery. Instead, it involves yielding or delivering in response to a demand. A surrender may be compelled or it may be voluntary. In landlord-tenant law, surrender occurs when a tenant agrees to return the leased premises to the landlord before the expiration of the lease and the landlord agrees to accept the return of the premises. In this respect a surrender differs from Abandonment, which is simply a unilateral act on the part of the tenant. In contrast, a surrender arises through a mutual agreement between the lessor and lessee. Surrender is used in many areas of Substantive Law. For example, in Criminal Law it refers to a suspect's giving up to the police. In insurance law the "cash surrender" value is the amount of money a person will receive when he elects to end a policy and take the proceeds allocated under the insurance contract. surrender v. 1) to turn over possession of real property, either voluntarily or upon demand, by tenant to landlord. 2) to give oneself up to law enforcement officials. surrender (Give back), verb abdicate, abjure, cede, disclaim, disown, forego, forfeit, forsake, hand over, let go, part with, reinstate, relinquish, render up, renounce, resign, restore, return, waive surrender (Yield), verb acquiesce, agree to, back down, be submissive, capitulate, concede, dedere, give in, obey, relent, submit, succumb, tradere See also: abandon, abandonment, abdication, accede, alienate, alienation, bear, cancellation, capitulation, cede, cession, compromise, concede, concession, deliver, delivery, desuetude, discontinuance, discontinue, disposition, expense, forfeit, forgo, give, grant, introduce, leave, obey, perish, prostration, quit, relinquish, relinquishment, remise, render, rendition, renounce, resign, resignation, sacrifice, submit, succumb, vacate, waive, waiver, withdraw, yield SURRENDER, estates, conveyancing. A yielding up of an estate for life or
years to him who has an immediate estate in reversion or remainder, by which
the lesser estate is merged in the greater by mutual agreement, Co. Litt.
337, b.
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