Recession
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A regrant; the act of a returning the title of a country to a government which formerly held it, by one which has it at the time; as, the recession of Louisiana, which took place by the treaty between France and Spain, of October 1, 1800.
See 2 White, Coll. 516.
RECESSUS (Lat. from recedere, to go back).
In old English law
A going from; a going off or out of land. Cum libera accessu et recessu, with free access and recess [ingress and egress]. Bracton, fol.
231b.
RECESSUS MARIS (Lat.) In old English law. A going back; reliction or retreat of the sea. Hale de Jur. Mar. par.
1, c. 6.