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surrender legal definition
noun
Delivery into the possession
of another, such as vacating of property by the tenant before the lease has
terminated so that the landlord may consider termination to have occurred; the
giving up of a claim or a right; yielding to the control or power of another;
the return of an estate to the one who has a reversion so as to merge the
estate into a larger one.
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