Crossword clues for relinquishment
relinquishment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relinquishment \Re*lin"quish*ment\ (-ment), n. The act of relinquishing.
Wiktionary
n. The act of relinquishing something.
WordNet
n. a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. [syn: relinquishing]
the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. [syn: relinquishing]
Usage examples of "relinquishment".
Hence it was held that certain Indian allottees under an agreement according to which, in part consideration of their relinquishment of all their claim to tribal property, they were to receive in severalty allotments of lands which were to be nontaxable for a specified period, acquired vested rights of exemption from State taxation which were protected by the Fifth Amendment against abrogation by Congress.
In their first yielding of territory since the Opium Wars, the British negotiated with Eugene Chen the relinquishment of the Hankow and Kiukang Concessions while diehards thundered red-faced in their clubs and the Empire quivered.
For this reason, any citizen who abuses their right to keep and bear arms by committing, while armed, a felonious act that deprives fellow citizens of life, limb or property, shall be subject to a permanent relinquishment of their Second Amendment rights in addition to their prison sentence.