Retrocession

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In civil law, a reconveyance of heritable rights to the original grantor.
  • noun. A going back or inward; relapse.
  • noun. In medicine, the disappearance or metastasis of a tumor, an eruption, etc., from the surface of the body inward.
  • noun. A sloping backward; a backward inclination or progression; a retreating outline, form, or position.
  • noun. The act of retroceding or giving back; in Scots law, the reconveyance of any right by an assignee back to the assignor, who thus recovers his former right by becoming the assignee of his own assignee.
  • noun. In geometry, inflection.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of retroceding.
  • noun. The state of being retroceded, or granted back.
  • noun. Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
  • noun. The return of land, etc. that was previously ceded.
  • noun. Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
  • Word Usage
    "That all said, I believe a broad reading of the Constitution says retrocession is the preferred path to follow."
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