Surrender
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
The yielding up of a lesser greater. Surrender in deed, surrender grant of a life estate to the remainderman operation of law, as if a tenant for years in copyholds, the yielding up of a of the manor, usually in order that he the method of alienating copyholds.