The act of cession is the assignment of property to another entity.

In particular, treaties of cession and other treaties effecting permanent territorial dispositions create permanent rights.

Spain made a cession of East and West Florida by the treaty of February 22, 1819.

This is an improper interpretation of the law of cession which, in any case, cannot be applied to the case of Mayotte.

The war ended on 30 October 1864, when the Treaty of Vienna caused Denmark's cession of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Saxe Lauenburg to Prussia and Austria.

After an ultimatum on 30 September (but without consulting with any other countries), Poland obtained the disputed Zaolzie region as a territorial cession shortly after the Munich Agreement, on 2 October.

Some concepts from Spanish law, such as the prior appropriation doctrine and community property, still persist in some US states, particularly those that were part of the Mexican Cession in 1848.

Geoffrey held the duchy until 1149, when he and Matilda conjointly ceded it to their son, Henry, which cession was formally ratified by King Louis VII of France the following year.

2) Treaties representing completed situations or intended to set up a permanent state of things, for example, treaties of cession or treaties fixing boundaries, are unaffected by war and continue in force.

On June 28, 1940, the Soviet Union, with the acknowledgement of Nazi Germany, issued an ultimatum to Romania requesting the cession of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, with which Romania complied the following day.

11.5 The State party further explains that under the major land cession treaties of Canada, including the Williams Treaties, what were once aboriginal rights to hunt and fish were redefined and reshaped through the treaties.

4. In April 1900, the Samoan high chiefs formally ceded the islands of Tutuila and Aunuu to the United States, and in July 1904 the cession was expanded to include Ofu, Olosega, Tau and Rose.

During the first half of the 19th century, the possibility of Russia demanding the cession of a stretch of coast along the Varangerfjord was for some time on the European diplomatic agenda, inducing King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway to conclude an alliance (1855) with Britain and France in order to forestall this possibility.