Cession

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Concession; compliance.

II. Cession ·noun A yielding to physical force.

III. Cession ·noun The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

IV. Cession ·noun The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

V. Cession ·noun A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of Ceding.