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territorial cessions from one state to another
The law required cession of the land to the heirs.
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In 1788, there were three avenues for lawful colonisation: conquest through war; cession by treaty; and occupation of a land declared terra nullius.
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Maggie Knight-Williams, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
German citizens resented the cession of this land with its three million Germans, and over the course of the 1930s, Hitler became increasingly aggressive in demanding its return to his Third Reich.
—TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
The prevalence of smoking has significantly decreased since the 1990s, and countries have been enacting various attempts at cession for decades—including restrictions on smoking in public places.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
In the meantime, the federal government assigned clerks to deal with the day-to-day logistics of the removal, appointed commissioners to negotiate land cessions, and mobilized thousands of soldiers to make the deportations a reality on the ground.
—David Treuer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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Maggie Knight-Williams, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
German citizens resented the cession of this land with its three million Germans, and over the course of the 1930s, Hitler became increasingly aggressive in demanding its return to his Third Reich.
—TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
The prevalence of smoking has significantly decreased since the 1990s, and countries have been enacting various attempts at cession for decades—including restrictions on smoking in public places.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
In the meantime, the federal government assigned clerks to deal with the day-to-day logistics of the removal, appointed commissioners to negotiate land cessions, and mobilized thousands of soldiers to make the deportations a reality on the ground.
—David Treuer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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“Cession.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cession. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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cession
noun
ces·sion
ˈsesh-ən 
: a giving over (as of territory or rights) to another
Legal Definition
cession
noun
ces·sion
ˈse-shən
1
: an act of ceding : a yielding (as of property) to another: as
a
in the civil law of Louisiana
: assignment or transfer of property rights by a debtor to a creditor
b
: transfer of liability by an insurer to a reinsurer
c
: transfer of control of or sovereignty over specific property or territory especially by treaty
such district…as may, by cession of particular States…become the seat of the government of the United States—U.S. Constitution art. I
U.S. Constitution art. I2
: the monetary amount of liability ceded by an insurer to a reinsurer compare concession
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