Cession
['seʃ(ə)n] or ['sɛʃən]
Definition
(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.
Checker: Melanie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Surrender, relinquishment, yielding, renunciation, abandonment.[2]. Grant, conveyance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Concession, yielding, surrender, abandonment, relinquishment, grant
ANT:Retention, claimance, maintenance, appropriation, usurpation, {[vindbmtkm]?},assumption
Typist: Natalie
Definition
n. a yielding up.—n. Ces′sionary one to whom an assignment has been legally made.—Cessio bonōrum (Scots law) before 1880 a debtor's surrender of his estate to his creditors in return for a judicial protection from imprisonment in respect of his debts.
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