A legal or archaic term referring to a party that yields, cedes, or surrenders something; one who grants or transfers rights.
From Latin cedens, present participle of cedere (to yield). Used in medieval and early modern legal documents to describe the surrendering party.
This is the legal term for 'the one doing the yielding'—in old contracts you'd see 'the cedens hereby grants' meaning 'the party giving this up hereby gives it'—it's the Latin-based vocabulary that made legal documents sound so official and permanent.
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