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Cession

The act of cession is the assignment of property to another entity. In international law it commonly refers to land transferred by treaty. Ballentine's Law Dictionary defines cession as "a surrender; a giving up; a relinquishment of jurisdiction by a board in favor of another agency." In contrast with annexation, where property is forcibly seized…

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Cession

Nodes51
Edges50
Triples68
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.039216
Components1

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related to Examples · 23
Cession → China, Columbia, Constitution, Convention, District, Empire, First Opium War, First Sino-Japanese War, Following, Hong Kong, In, Japan, Kowloon, Maryland, Nanking, Peking, Qing, Second Opium War, Taiwan, The Virginia
related to Contract law · 19
Cession → April, Cessions, Connecticut, East, February, France, Georgia, Louisiana, Louisiana Purchase, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Paris, South Carolina, Spain, This, United States, Virginia, West Florida
related to Disputed case · 11
Cession → China, In, Japan, Japan's, Republic, See, Taiwan, Taiwan Retrocession Day, The, Whether, WWII
see also · 6
Cession → Authority, Boundary, Indigenous, Movement, State, Type
related to Civil law · 4
Cession → Once, The, Under, Whereas
is a · 2
Cession → assignment of property to another entity, equivalent of assignment
related to Retrocession · 2
Cession → Examples, Retrocession
related to Ecclesiastical law · 1
Cession → When

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law retrocession ceded another land treaty virginia taiwan territory louisiana transferred also property france assignment jurisdiction states following government purchase

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Cessionis aassignment of property to another entity0.90text
Cessionis aequivalent of assignment0.90text
Cessionrelated to Civil lawUnder0.60section
Cessionrelated to Civil lawWhereas0.60section
Cessionrelated to Civil lawOnce0.60section
Cessionrelated to Civil lawThe0.60section
Cessionrelated to Contract lawThis0.60section
Cessionrelated to Contract lawFrance0.60section
Cessionrelated to Contract lawLouisiana0.60section
Cessionrelated to Contract lawUnited States0.60section
Cessionrelated to Contract lawParis0.60section
Cessionrelated to Contract lawApril0.60section

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