Note: this article name (or a redirect to it) is a homophone with session. Homonyms (in Greek homoios = identical and onoma = name) are words which have the same form (orthographic/phonetic) but unrelated meaning. ... Note: this article name (or a redirect to it) is a homophone with cession. ...

Most broadly, cession (to cede) is the assignment of property to another entity. In international law it commonly refers to land transferred by treaty. It is voluntary, as opposed to annexation, which is forcible. // Use of the term In common usage, property means ones own thing and refers to the relationship between individuals and the objects which they see as being their own to dispense with as they see fit. ... International law (also called public international law to distinguish from private international law, i. ... This is a list of land borders between countries Note: Entries which are not sovereign states are italicised. ... Single European Act A treaty is a binding agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely states and international organizations. ... Annexation (Latin ad, to, and nexus, joining) is the legal incorporation of some territory into another geo-political entity (either adjacent or non-contiguous). ...

In one example, Maryland and Virginia both ceded land in 1790 to become the District of Columbia, specified in the U.S. Constitution of the previous year. The Virginia portion was given back in 1842, a process known as retrocession. Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,417 sq mi (32,160 km²)  - Width 90 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37°53N to 39°43N  - Longitude 75°4W to 79°33... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... 1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... ... Page I of the Constitution of the United States of America Page II of the United States Constitution Page III of the United States Constitution Page IV of the United States Constitution The Syng inkstand, with which the Constitution was signed The Constitution of the United States is the supreme... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Territory can also be ceded for payment, such as in the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska Purchase. Even fraud can be involved, such as in the Treaty of New Echota, whereby lands already taken in 1832 by outright theft of the U.S. state of Georgia were later "ceded" by to the state by a Cherokee leader. A territory is a defined area (including land and waters), usually considered to be a possession of an animal, person, organization, or institution (from the word terra, meaning land). In politics, a territory is an area of land under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority. ... From Frank Bond, Louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase. ... The Alaska purchase from Russia by the United States occurred in 1867 at the behest of Secretary of State William Seward. ... The Treaty of New Echota was a removal treaty signed in New Echota, Georgia by officials of the United States government and several members of a faction within the Cherokee nation on December 29, 1835. ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Minor parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries â€¢ Politics Portal • • A state of the United States is any one of the fifty subnational entities referred to... For other uses, see Cherokee (disambiguation). ...

A similar concept to cession is concession, while recession is somewhat different. A concession is a territory within one country that is administered by another country. ... A recession is usually defined in macroeconomics as a fall of a countrys real Gross Domestic Product in two or more successive quarters of a year. ...

Contracts. Yielding up; release. France ceded Louisiana to the United States by the treaty of Paris, of April 30, 1803. Spain made a cession of 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.

Civil Law: The act by which a personal claim is transferred from one party (the cedent) to another, (the cessionary). Whereas real rights are transferred by delivery, personal rights are transferred by cession. Once the obligation of the debtor is transferred, the creditor is entirely substituted. The original creditor (cedent) loses his right to claim and the new creditor (cessionary) gains that right.

Eccl. Law. When an ecclesiastic is created bishop, or when a parson takes another benefice without dispensation, the first benefice becomes void by a legal cession, or surrender.

See also

• Escheat of Limbo Cessions