Cessate
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Cession
Most broadly, cession (to cede) is the assignment of
property
to another entity. In
international law
it commonly refers to
land
transferred by
treaty
. Cession is "a surrender; a yielding; a giving up." It is voluntary, as opposed to
annexation
, which is forcible. In one example,
Maryland
and
Virginia
both ceded land in 1790 to become the
District of Columbia
, specified in the
U.S. Constitution
of the previous year. The Virginia portion was
given back
in
1847
, a process known as retrocession.
Territory
can also be ceded for payment, such as in the
Louisiana Purchase
and
Alaska Purchase
. Even
fraud
can be involved, such as in the
Treaty of New Echota
, whereby lands already taken in 1832 by outright theft of the
U.S. state
of
Georgia
were later "ceded" to the state by a
Cherokee
leader.
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cessare
v.
stop, halt, cease, break off, finish, terminate, end
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Cessate
A grant of representation of limited duration which has ceased and expired
By
Her Majesty's Courts Service
. Published under Crown Copyright.
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