retrocession

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In civil law, a reconveyance of heritable rights to the original grantor.

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A going back or inward; relapse.

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In medicine, the disappearance or metastasis of a tumor, an eruption, etc., from the surface of the body inward.

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A sloping backward; a backward inclination or progression; a retreating outline, form, or position.

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The act of retroceding or giving back; in Scots law, the reconveyance of any right by an assignee back to the assignor, who thus recovers his former right by becoming the assignee of his own assignee.

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In geometry, inflection.

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The act of retroceding.

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The state of being retroceded, or granted back.

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Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.

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The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.