| n. | 1. | The act of retroceding. |
| 2. | The state of being retroceded, or granted back. | |
| 3. | (Med.) Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body. |
RETROCESSION, civil law. When the assignee of heritable rights conveys his rights back to the cedent, it is called a retrocession. Erskine, Prin. B. 3, t. 5, n. 1; Dict. do Jur. h.t.