retrocession
noun
- act of giving the rights and/or possession of something to the person or institution in charge of its conservation
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: Compare French rétrocession. See retrocede.
- The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
- The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
- Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
- The act of retroceding; a going back.
“For example, suppose the Moon to be placed in 10° of any sign: suppose Saturn to pass over that spot and attain to the 15th degree of the same sign, and there become stationary; that his retrocession carries him back to the 8th degree, […]”