Surrender : (noun)
1: acceptance of despair [syn: resignation]
2: a verbal act of admitting defeat [syn: giving up, yielding]
3: the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
4: the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions); "they
were protected until the capitulation of the fort" [syn: capitulation,
fall]
(verb)
1: give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of
another; "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered"
[syn: give up] [ant: resist]
2: relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to
surrender the building after the police moved in" [syn: cede,
deliver, give up]
3: relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of
another [syn: relinquish]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Surrender : \Sur*ren"der\, n. (Insurance)
The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the
company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration
(called the
surrender value).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Surrender : \Sur*ren"der\, v. i.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Surrender : \Sur*ren"der\, n.
1. 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.
That he may secure some liberty he makes a surrender
in trust of the whole of it. --Burke.
2. (Law)
(a) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an
immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
(b) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by
his bail.
(c) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one
government to another, as by a foreign state. See
Extradition. --Wharton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Surrender : \Sur*ren"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surrendered; p.
pr. & vb. n. Surrendering.] [OF. surrendre to deliver; sur
over _ rendre to render. See Sur-, and Render.]
1. 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.
2. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to
surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
To surrender up that right which otherwise their
founders might have in them. --Hooker.
3. 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.
4. (Law) 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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SURRENDER, estates, conveyancing. A yielding up of an estate for life or
years to him who has an immediate estate in reversion or remainder, by which
the lesser estate is merged in the greater by mutual agreement, Co. Litt.
337, b.
2. ASurrender : is of a nature directly opposite to a release; for, as
the latter operates by the greater estate descending upon the less, the
former is the falling of a less estate into a greater, by deed. A surrender
immediately divests the estate of the surrenderer, and vests it in the
surrenderee, even without the assent (q.v.) of the latter. Touchs. 300, 301.
3. The technical and proper words of this conveyance are, surrender and
yield up; but any form of words; by which the intention. of the parties is
sufficiently manifested, will operate as a surrender, Perk. Sec. 607; 1 Term
Rep. 441; Com. Dig. Surrender, A.
4. The surrender may be express or implied. The latter is when an
estate, incompatible with the existing estate, is accepted or the lessee
takes a new lease of the same lands. 16 Johns. Rep. 28; 2 Wils. 26; 1 Barn.
& A. 50; 2 Barn. & A. 119; 5 Taunt. 518, and see 6 East, R. 86; 9 Barn. &
Cr. 288 7 Watts, R. 128. Vide, generally, Cruise, Dig. tit. 32, c. 7; Com.
Dig. h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; 4 Kent, Com. 102; Nels. Ab. h.t.; Rolle's Ab. h.t.
11 East, R. 317, n.
5. The deed or instrument by which a surrender is made, is also called
a surrender. For the law of presumption of surrenders, see Math. on Pres.
ch. 13, p. 236; Addis. on Contr. 658-661.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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