Devolution and Cession

noun

• The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.
  • synonyms: degeneration
• The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government. ).
  • synonyms: devolvement

• (n.) The act of rolling down.
• (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

DEVOLUTION is the delegation of authority from higher to lower levels.

noun

• The act of ceding.
  • synonyms: ceding

• (n.) Concession; compliance.
• (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
• (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
• (n.) A yielding to physical force.
• (n.) A yielding or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.