Sentence examples for surrender of property from inspiring English sources

The extent to which surrender of property to a lord as a fief limited control and rights over the property has been investigated, as has the importance of such acts in creating ties between family groups that could be repeatedly renewed.

* "The surrender of property will not include the side arms or private horses or baggage of officers" and enlisted men.

But the contract explicitly details the penalty for nonpayment — surrender of the property.

The surrender of the property is a huge blow to Tishman Speyer, which controls Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building.

The surrender of the properties, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, ends a tortured real estate saga that saw the partnership make expensive improvements to the complex and then try to rent the apartments at higher market rates in a real estate boom.

"In this era of open space it's very hard to make a case for surrendering a piece of property for an inferior piece of property," she said.

At the end of the month, we have Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot, "a post-modern take on 19th-century romance" which sets up a love triangle among Ivy League literature graduates to see if "a viable 'marriage plot' might be constructed around a feminist-era heroine for whom marriage no longers means an irrevocable surrender of person and property".

The original verdict in Shylock's case resulted in a forced religious conversion and the surrender of wealth and property.

'It happens to us all,' she said, explaining her surrender to property-owning propriety.

There are eerie parallels here with Japan's experience in 1990 when the Nikkei surrendered three years of gains in eight months, and waves of property firms that had ridden the real estate boom went under.

But to Gates settling would also have meant settling for something unacceptable: a surrender of control over his company's intellectual property..