Godoy was unable to carry out his designs, and Arango was not only victor but he gained a still further point for Cuba, the relinquishment of the royal monopoly of tobacco.
He captured the British posts on the St. Mary's river, and was proceeding successfully, when his march was arrested by sickness, so fatal to his army as to compel a relinquishment of the enterprise.
He thought that the relinquishmentof their religion by cultured Jews was explained by their fatal application to scientific study, and their contempt for the Kabbala.
These are not beggarly and vagabond Indians, to whom the offer of subsistence would be sufficient to obtain the relinquishment of their franchises, or the cession of their lands.
The United States were not then grown so great that they could afford to value lightly the freerelinquishment of the soil by the native owners of it.
We repeat, there need never be any difficulty in securing, at the right time and in the right way, the relinquishment of lands or privileges from the Indians.
It authorized the relinquishment of contracts for lands which had been entered into at high prices, and a reduction in other cases of not less than thirty-seven and a half per cent on the purchase-money.
There was that in them which office did not give, and which the relinquishment of office did not, and could not, take away.
There is no treaty with the Indians of British Columbia, as with those of the plains, for the relinquishment of their title to the land, but the government otherwise assists them.
The consideration, on the part of Georgia, was the relinquishment of her claim to the Mississippi territory.
The negotiations for the relinquishmentof the gold fields having failed, it will be necessary for Congress to adopt some measures to relieve the embarrassment growing out of the causes named.
It began with the killing of President Heureaux in July last, and culminated in the relinquishment by the succeeding Vice-President of the reins of government to the insurgents.
Several treaties have been formed for the relinquishment of territory to the United States and for the migration of the occupants of the region assigned for their residence West of the Mississippi.
On this side of the Mississippi an important relinquishment of native title has been received from the Delawares.
In the terms stipulated the rights and honor of the United States were particularly consulted by a perpetual relinquishment on the part of the Dey of all pretensions to tribute from them.
The last Congress enacted two distinct laws relating to negotiations with the Sioux Indians of Dakota for a relinquishment of a portion of their lands to the United States and for dividing the remainder into separate reservations.
It is a relinquishment of five parts out of eight of the territory of the United States; an abandonment of the fairest subject for the payment of our public debts, and the chaining those debts on our own necks, in perpetuum.
He wants me to sign a paper stating my relinquishment of domicile.
A wife may release her right of dower in real property by joining in a joint deed with her husband, although the deed may contain no express relinquishment of dower.
The resignation of Lord Chatham, in 1768, was, in fact, nothing more than the relinquishment of an appointment in which he had long ceased to exercise his authority, or to exert his abilities.
He directed their attention not merely to the protection connected with the land, but asked them to remember that he had called on the manufacturers to set the first example of the relinquishment of protection.
Lord Howe, indeed, terrified the Dutch into a relinquishment of their designs on the trade of Great Britain to the Baltic, and the whole scheme of the enemy proved abortive.
Barnett at last acquiesced in the relinquishment of his desire of rescue.
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.
Law) Defn: A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.
And on a neck of mud there also lay a stranded boat with one side broken in, a lamentable symbol of the impossibility and the relinquishment of navigation.
If the enforced relinquishment of the temporal power had exalted the Pope by freeing him from the worries of a petty sovereignty which was ever threatened, the need of money still remained like a chain about his feet tying him to earth.
The circumstance that first led to their relinquishmentof the antique models, is narrated by Boscán himself, in the Dedication of the second volume of his poems to the Duchess of Soma.
The aforesaid relinquishment or cession, as the case may be, includes all documents exclusively referring to the sovereignty relinquished or ceded that may exist in the archives of the Peninsula.
Not only had the bitterness passed from his shame, but there had come, with the relinquishment of the idea of personal wrong, a swift rush of exaltation, like a strong wind, through his soul.
Now, as every where women are the tamers of the menageries of men; so Yillah in good time tamed down Samoa to the relinquishment of that horrible thing in his ear, and persuaded him to substitute a vacancy for the bauble in his nose.
This symbolized his relinquishment forever of all purpose of passing out of the glen.
Thus this grave disaster to an English ship led to my final relinquishmentof the idea of returning to London as a literary free lance, and to my settling in Leeds as permanent editor of the Mercury.
