
1) Ceding 2) French word used in English 3) International law 4) Relinquishing 5) Relinquishment 6) Surrendering by treaty 7) The act of ceding 8) Yielding of territory
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1) Ceding 2) Relinquishment
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The act of cession is the assignment of property to another entity. In international law it commonly refers to land transferred by treaty. Ballentine`s Law Dictionary defines cession as `a surrender; a giving up; a relinquishment of jurisdiction by a board in favor of another agency` In contrast with annexation, where property is forcibly given......
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• (n.) Concession; compliance. • (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation. • (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person`s effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment. • (n.) A yielding to physical force. • (n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to anothe...
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(from the article `annexation`) a formal act whereby a state proclaims its sovereignty over territory hitherto outside its domain. Unlike cession, whereby territory is given or ...
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See reinsurance. The operation by which an insurance company transfers some of its risks to a reinsurance company.
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the action of giving up, handing over, or 'ceding', especially territory
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Ces'sion noun [ Latin
cessio , from
cedere to give way: confer French
Cession . See
Cede .]
1. A yielding to physical force. [ Obsolete]
Bacon. 2. Concession; compliance. [ Obsolete]
3. A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to...
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Contracts. Yielding up; release. 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, an...
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[
n] - the act of ceding
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[Treasure Island] ceding; giving over.
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ceding noun the act of ceding
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act of ceding, as by treaty. · something that is ceded, as territory.
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