RECESSIO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RECESSION. A re-grant: the act of returning the title of a country to a 
  government which formerly held it, by one which has it at the time; as the 
  recession of Louisiana, which took place by the treaty between France and 
  Spain, of October 1, 1800. See 2 White's Coll. 516.