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Retrocession

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In civil law

When the assignee of heritable rights conveys his rights back to the cedent, it is called a "retrocession."

Ersk. Inst. 3. 5. 1; Diet, de Jur.