Cession
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
contracts, yielding up; release. France ceded Louisjana to the United States by the treaty of Paris, of April 30, 1803; Spain made a cessionof East and West Florida, by the treaty of February 22, 1819. Cessions have been severally made of a part of their territory, by New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Vide Gord. Dig. art.
2236 to 2250.