Literary notes about Cession (AI summary)
The term "cession" in literature is most often used to denote the formal transfer or relinquishment of territory, rights, or property, frequently rooted in political or legal negotiations. In historical narratives, this word appears in contexts such as the alienation of significant tracts of land from indigenous peoples—as seen when the Cherokee were severed from their hunting grounds in Ohio and Kentucky ([1], [2], [3])—or in discussions about territorial exchanges between nations, like the negotiations concerning Canada or Sardinia ([4], [5]), and even in modern geopolitical visions, as with Argentina's territorial concessions ([6]). Occasionally, the term is extended metaphorically to refer to the transfer of power or privileges, such as in the case where a consulship was acquired through the cession of rights from a sibling ([7]). Moreover, "cession" can also pertain to non-territorial assets, evidenced by its use in discussions about the transfer of rolling stock in Germany ([8]). This varied usage across literary works demonstrates the word’s flexibility in conveying both physical and abstract acts of yielding or transferring control.
- By this last cession the Cherokee were at last cut off from Ohio river and all their rich Kentucky hunting grounds.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - The entire cession aggregated nearly six thousand square miles, or more than one-fourth of all then held by the nation.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - The negotiations were accompanied by a cession of land, the first in the history of the tribe.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - He is a French ambassador, come to treat with our rulers about the cession of Canada.
— from Mosses from an old manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Rome availed herself of the distress of Carthage to extort the cession of Sardinia, and raised the war indemnity by 1200 talents.’—Ihne.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - The Argentine Republic would derive considerable profit from the cession of a portion of its territory to us.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl - Of the six consulships which he held, only one was ordinary; and that he obtained by the cession and interest of his brother.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius - [65] For the time being Germany's transport system will be much more seriously disordered by the provisions relating to the cession of rolling-stock.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
