What is "cessions"

Usage examples of "cessions".

Combined with arrears in ransom, cancellation of the “hos­tages’“ treaty, to which he had assented, and non-fulfillment of other cessions, it brought his own honor into disrepute and left him no way out, so he claimed, but to return to captivity.

At this parley Coucy and his fellow envoys offered new cessions and adjustments and the entire county of Angouleme as dowry for Catherine, but the English remained suspicious.

These cessions already constitute one fourth of the States of the Union.

The Creek land cessions made the Seminoles all the more determined to hold their own homelands.

A majority of the Creeks repudiated the land cessions but were mercilessly persecuted under the policies of Georgia governor George Troup.

All these cessions were held by the United States as territory immediately subject to the Union, before being erected into States.