SURRENDER

In Law. l.A deed by which the tenant of a particular estate conveys his interest to tenant in remainder, a reversion immediately expectant on the determination of that estate. 2. A surrender of copyhold or customary estates is the yielding up of such estates by the tenant into the hands of the lord for purJ196 SURVEYING. poses expre ed in the surrender. By this means are accomplished conveyances of copyhold lands, the lord being in general bound to admit the party in whose favour the surrender is made. See Copyhold. [s. 1209]