Cession

1. n. The voluntary surrender of a person’s effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
2. n. A yielding to physical force.
3. n. Concession; compliance.
4. n. A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.
5. n. The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.