Devolution and Surrender

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

• Acceptance of despair.
  • synonyms: resignation
• A verbal act of admitting defeat.
  • synonyms: giving up, yielding
• The delivery of a principal into lawful custody.
• The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions. )
  • usage: "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"
  • synonyms: capitulation, fall

verb

• Give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another.
  • usage: "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered"
  • synonyms: give up
• Relinquish possession or control over.
  • usage: "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"
  • synonyms: cede, deliver, give up

• (n.) The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).
• (v.t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence or to sleep.
• (v.t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege or advantage.
• (n.) The act of surrendering; the act of yielding or resigning one's person or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.
• (v.t.) To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.
• (n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
• (n.) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
• (v.t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
• (v.i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.
• (n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.

Giving up leasehold rights by a tenant in exchange for a release from future obligations under a lease.