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- Dictionarycede/siːd/
verb
- 1. give up (power or territory): "in 1874, the islands were ceded to Britain"
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4 days ago · When an insurer gives up business to a licensed reinsurer, the cedent is permitted under regulatory accounting rules to recognize a reduction in its liabilities in the amount of ceded liabilities, without a regulatory requirement for the reinsurer to post any collateral to secure the reinsurer's payment of the reinsured liabilities.
1 day ago · Kings were never above the law. Even the epitome of absolute monarchy, Louis XIV of France, who ruled from 1643 to 1715, did not stand above the law. He embodied the law. Known as “the Sun King ...
1 day ago · “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people,” Jefferson wrote in 1776. Despite historical distance and legal difference, John of Salisbury could not have put it better. Unlike, apparently, future U.S. presidents, kings have never been immune from the law.
1 day ago · Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within a state as well as external autonomy for states. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the person, body or institution that has the ultimate authority over other people and to change existing laws.
1 day ago · In the 18th century, during the heyday of the Royal or King’s Highway, the highway was the main road by which people, and more importantly, goods, traveled from the countryside to cities. It was, in the eyes of many commoners, the open wound from which their food, fiber, and other precious resources were bleeding away.
1 day ago · This is the candidate’s most exposed flank. At the beginning of the legislature, Biden ceded to her the management of the border with Mexico and the migratory crisis. It was interpreted then as a vote of confidence, but also as a way to not put the president’s political capital at risk on a thorny issue.
