Cede

To assign; to transfer. Applied to the act by which one state or nation transfers territory to another.

To assign; to transfer. Applied to the act by wbich one state or nation transfers territory to another.

To assign or transfer. Applied to a transfer of territory by one state or nation to another.

To yield up; to assign; to grant, Generally used to designate the transfer of E territory from one government to another.

See Cession.

Lat. To yield or give up; to assign or transfer; to cede. Si quis ex sociis — bonis suis cesserit; if a partner make an assignment of his goods. Inst. 3. 26. 8. Id. 4. 6. 40. To yield or give way to another, as superior; to go or pass with a thing, as an inferior or subordinate thing; to follow as a part of a thing; to belong to. Hence the compounds accedere, and accessio, (q. v.) Cedere is of very frequent occurrence in the civil law. Cedere solo, picturae, vestimento, &c., to go with, or belong to the soil, painting, garment, &c., Inst. 2. 1. 26, 32 — 34. Omne quod aedificatur solo cedit. Every thing which is built upon land goes with or belongs to the land. Id. 2. 1. 29. Frumenta quae sata sunt solo cedere intelliguntur; grains which are planted are understood to belong to the soil. Id. 2. 1. 32. So, in Bracton, who borrows from the civil law: — Tabula cedit picturae; the tablet goes with the painting. Bract, fol. 10. Purpura cedit vestimento, jure accessionis; the purple goes with the garment by right of accession; Id. ibid. Minor cedit majori vel pretiosiori; the lesser goes with the greater, or more valuable. Id. fol. 9 b. And see the maxims Aqua cedit solo, Bello parta cedant reipublicae.