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                  resignation

                  the action by which a feuar restored his lands to his feudal superior. Resignation into the hands of the superior was either for the purpose of a re-grant to a third party (resignation in favorem) or, less commonly, to remain in the superior’s own hands (resignation ad remanentiam); see novodamus, procuratory of resignation.