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Webster 1913 Edition
Cession
1.
A yielding to physical force.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
2.
Concession; compliance.
[Obs.]
3.
A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.
A
cession
of the island of New Orleans. Bancroft.
4.
(Eccl. Law)
The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
5.
(Civil Law)
The voluntary surrender of a person’s effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cession
CESSION
, n.1.
The act of giving way; a yielding to force or impulse.2.
A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; particularly, a surrender of conquered territory to its former proprietor or sovereign, by treaty.3.
In the civil law, a voluntary surrender of a persons effects to his creditors, to avoid imprisonment.4.
In ecclesiastical law, the leaving of a benefice without dispensation or being otherwise qualified. When an ecclesiastical person is created a bishop, or when the parson of a parish takes another benefice, without dispensation, the benefices are void by cession, without resignation.