Decker on the other hand argued that the treaty of cession between Virginia and the United States protected slavery in the territory.

On September 18, 1773, the committee formally signed the treaty of cession, renouncing all claims of the commonwealth to the lost territories.

Decker also asserted that the Indiana Constitution could not end slavery there as it would violate that treaty of cession.

Most of these were not, however, treaties of cession; they were in the form of cooperative agreements between two sovereign powers.

Only a handful of Chiefs had signed treaties of cession, and in some of those cases it is doubtful whether they had understood the terms.

The United States government took over Utah without a single Ute land title settled and without any treaty of cession negotiated.

The elector Frederick William (d. 1875) had been, by the terms of the treaty of cession, guaranteed the entailed property of his house.

By today's standards, a treaty of cession is void if it arises out of an act of annexation procured by the threat or use of force.

A treaty of cession was signed in May 1956, and following ratification by the French National Assembly in May 1962, de jure control of the enclaves was also transferred.

The so-called Partition Sejm, with Russian military forces threatening the opposition, on September 18, 1773, signed the treaty of cession, renouncing all claims of the Commonwealth to the occupied territories.

The Supreme Court of Mississippi agreed that the treaty of cession protected the property of settlers living in the area at the time, but became superseded by the Ordinance of 1787.

These came in handy in treaties of cession he negotiated in 1818 and 1825 with the colonial government, which was eager to use these islands, like Matacong and the Isles de Los, as customs posts.

A treaty of cession was signed in 1823 and the island was formally named MacCarthy Island (after Sir Charles MacCarthy, former Governor General of the British West African Territories.)

He also successfully defended the island against an attempt by the sultan of Kedah in 1791 to reclaim it because of the failure by the East India Company to observe the defensive clause in the treaty of cession.

Guatemala, in opposition to both the UK and Belize positions, has an older view that this agreement was a treaty of cession through which Guatemala would give up its territorial claims only under certain conditions, including the construction of a road from Guatemala to the Caribbean coast.