Surrender
Sur`ren´der
| v. t. | 1. | To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship. |
| 2. | To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage. |
| 3. | To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; - used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep. |
| 4. | (Law) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. |
| v. i. | 1. | To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons. |
| n. | 1. | The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right. |
| 2. | (Law) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion. |
| 3. | (Insurance) The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value). |
SURRENDER, estates, conveyancing. A yielding up of an estate for life or
years to him who has an immediate estate in reversion or remainder, by which
the lesser estate is merged in the greater by mutual agreement, Co. Litt.
337, b.
2. A surrender is of a nature directly opposite to a release; for, as
the latter operates by the greater estate descending upon the less, the
former is the falling of a less estate into a greater, by deed. A surrender
immediately divests the estate of the surrenderer, and vests it in the
surrenderee, even without the assent (q.v.) of the latter. Touchs. 300, 301.
3. The technical and proper words of this conveyance are, surrender and
yield up; but any form of words; by which the intention. of the parties is
sufficiently manifested, will operate as a surrender, Perk. Sec. 607; 1 Term
Rep. 441; Com. Dig. Surrender, A.
4. The surrender may be express or implied. The latter is when an
estate, incompatible with the existing estate, is accepted or the lessee
takes a new lease of the same lands. 16 Johns. Rep. 28; 2 Wils. 26; 1 Barn.
& A. 50; 2 Barn. & A. 119; 5 Taunt. 518, and see 6 East, R. 86; 9 Barn. &
Cr. 288 7 Watts, R. 128. Vide, generally, Cruise, Dig. tit. 32, c. 7; Com.
Dig. h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; 4 Kent, Com. 102; Nels. Ab. h.t.; Rolle's Ab. h.t.
11 East, R. 317, n.
5. The deed or instrument by which a surrender is made, is also called
a surrender. For the law of presumption of surrenders, see Math. on Pres.
ch. 13, p. 236; Addis. on Contr. 658-661.
abalienate,
abalienation,
abandonment,
abatement of differences,
abdicate,
abdication,
abjuration,
abjure,
abjurement,
accommodate,
accommodation,
accordance,
acknowledge defeat,
acquiesce,
adjust,
adjustment,
alien,
alienate,
alienation,
amortization,
amortize,
amortizement,
appeasement,
arrangement,
assign,
assignation,
assignment,
award,
awarding,
bargain,
bargain and sale,
barter,
beg a truce,
bequeath,
bequeathal,
bestowal,
bestowment,
capitulate,
capitulation,
cease,
cede,
ceding,
cession,
circulate,
come across with,
come to terms,
commit,
communication,
comply,
compose,
composition,
compound,
compromise,
concede,
concession,
confer,
conferment,
conferral,
consign,
consignation,
consignment,
contribution,
convey,
conveyance,
conveyancing,
cop out,
cop-out,
crumble,
cry pax,
cry quits,
deal,
deed,
deed over,
deeding,
deliver,
deliver over,
deliverance,
delivery,
demise,
desertion of principle,
desist from,
devolve upon,
disgorge,
dispensation,
dispense with,
disposal,
dispose of,
disposition,
distribute,
do without,
donation,
drop,
dropping out,
duck responsibility,
dump,
dumping,
endowment,
enfeoff,
enfeoffment,
entrust,
evade responsibility,
evasion of responsibility,
exchange,
forgo,
forgoing,
fork over,
forsake,
forswear,
forswearing,
forward,
furnishment,
get along without,
get rid of,
getting rid of,
gifting,
give,
give and take,
give away,
give in,
give out,
give over,
give title to,
give up,
give way,
give-and-take,
giving,
giving in,
giving over,
giving up,
giving way,
go down,
go fifty-fifty,
go under,
grant,
granting,
hand,
hand down,
hand in,
hand on,
hand out,
hand over,
handing over,
have done with,
impartation,
impartment,
implore mercy,
investiture,
kiss good-bye,
lay down,
lease and release,
leave,
leave off,
letting go,
liberality,
make a deal,
make a sacrifice,
make an adjustment,
make concessions,
make over,
meet halfway,
mutual concession,
negotiate,
offer,
part with,
pass,
pass on,
pass out,
pass over,
play politics,
pray for quarter,
presentation,
presentment,
provision,
quit,
quitclaim,
reach,
reach a compromise,
recant,
recantation,
recedence,
recession,
release,
relinquishment,
render,
render up,
renounce,
renouncement,
renunciation,
resignation,
retract,
retraction,
retreat,
riddance,
sacrifice,
sale,
say uncle,
sell,
settle,
settle on,
settlement,
settling,
sign away,
sign over,
spare,
split the difference,
strike a balance,
strike a bargain,
submission,
submit,
subscription,
succumb,
supplying,
swear off,
swearing off,
take the mean,
throw up,
trade,
trading,
transfer,
transference,
transferral,
transmission,
transmit,
transmittal,
turn in,
turn over,
turn up,
turning over,
understanding,
vacate,
vesting,
vouchsafement,
waive,
waiver,
white flag,
withdrawing,
yield the palm,
yielding
surrender - acceptance of despair