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Cession
The act of relinquishing one's right.
A surrender, relinquishment, or assignment of territory by one state or government to another.
The territory of a foreign government gained by the transfer of sovereignty.
cession
noun abalienation, allowance, assignment, award, bestowal, concession, conveyance, delivery, disposition, donation, gift, giving up, giving up claim to, grant, handing over, nonretention, parting with, release, relinquishing claim to, relinquishment, submittal, surrender, transfer, waiver, yieldingSee also: abandonment, alienation, assignment, consignment, conveyance, demise, desertion, expense, release, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, sacrifice
CESSION, contracts. Yielding up; release.
2. France ceded Louisiana to the United States, by the treaty of Paris,
of April 30, 1803 Spain made a cession of East and West Florida, by the
treaty of February 22, 1819. Cessions have been severally made of a part of
their territory, by New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut) South
Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Vide Gord. Dig. art. 2236 to 2250.
CESSION, civil law. The, act by which a party assigns or transfers property to a other; an assignment.
CESSION, eccl. law. When an ecclesiastic is created bishop, or when a parson takes another benefice, without dispensation, the first benefice becomes void by a legal cession, or surrender. Cowel, h.t.