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Definition of Surrender

Surrender The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value). 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. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage. 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. 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. 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. 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. The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion. The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail. The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition. Related Definitions: Act, Advantage, An, And, Another, Any, Anything, As, At, Bail, Beneficiary, By, Called, Cancellation, Castle, Company, Compulsion, Consideration, Custody, Deliver, Delivery, Demand, Despair, Emotion, Enemy, Escape, Estate, Extradition, First, For, Foreign, Fort, From, Fugitive, Give, Giving, Government, Grief, Him, His, Has, Immediate, In, Indolence, Influence, Insured, Into, Justice, Lawful, Legal, Liability, No, Of, Officer, One, Or, Particular, Passion, Person, Possession, Power, Principal, Privilege, Remainder, Render, Resign, Resigning, Reversion, Right, See, Seeing, Self, Ship, Sleep, Something, State, Summons, Surrender, Surrendered, Surrendering, Tenant, The, Thereof, To, Up, Upon, Used, Value, Voluntary, Way, Who, Yield, Yielding

Surrender Quotations We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. Jesse Jackson All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. Mohandas Gandhi All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. Blaise Pascal The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. Vince Lombardi

Surrender Translations surrender in Dutch is capituleren, zich overgeven surrender in German is Abtretung {f}, Kapitulation, aufgeben surrender in Italian is consegnare surrender in Swedish is ge sig, uppge

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