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n. A ceding or surrendering, as of territory to another country by treaty.

n. Something, such as territory, that is ceded.

n. That which is ceded. Insurance: (part of) a risk which is transferred from one actor to another.

n. The giving up of rights, property etc. which one is entitled to.

n. A yielding to physical force.

n. Concession; compliance.

n. A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.

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. The act of yielding or giving way; concession.

n. A yielding to physical force or impulse.

n. The act of ceding, yielding, or surrendering, as territory, property, or rights; a giving up, resignation, or surrender.

n. In civil law, a voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment. See cessio bonorum.

n. Eccles., the leaving of one benefice in consequence of accepting another, the incumbent not having a dispensation entitling him to hold both.

n. the act of ceding

"Of this her Government has been repeatedly apprised, and the cession was the more to have been anticipated as Spain must have known that in ceding it she would likewise relieve herself from the important obligation secured by the treaty of 1795 and all other compromitments respecting it."

relinquishment    relinquishing   

treaty of cession    benefit of cession   

recession    ceding back   

concession    compliance    transfer    relinquishment   

annexation    pacification    relinquishment    subjugation    capitulation