"Surrender" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A yielding up of an es-tate tor life or years to hlm who has an immediate estate in reversion or remainder, by which the lesser estate ls merged in the greater by mutual agreement. Co. Lltt. 337b. And see Coe v. Hobby, 72 N. Y. 145, 28 Am. Rep. 120; Gluck v. Baltlmore, 81 Md. 315
The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his
bail.
The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an
immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one
government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
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.
- pasis in CEBUANO
To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to
surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
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Read the complete definitionThe official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.
Read the complete definitionOne who makes a surrender, as of an estate.
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