Retrocession

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Retrocession \Re`tro*ces"sion\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]trocession. See
     {Retrocede}.]
     1. The act of retroceding.
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     2. The state of being retroceded, or granted back.


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     3. (Med.) Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the
        surface to the interior of the body.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RETROCESSION, civil law. When the assignee of heritable rights conveys his 
  rights back to the cedent, it is called a retrocession. Erskine, Prin. B. 3, 
  t. 5, n. 1; Dict. do Jur. h.t.