Cession

Cession

(1) The act of ordering a yielding or giving up; surrender; relinquishment of property or rights. (2) In the Civil Law, an assignment; the act by which a party transfers property to another; the surrender of assignment of property for the benefit of ones creditors. (3) In public law, the assignment, transfer, or yielding up of territory by one state or government to another.

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