yielding (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. cessio (surrendering, a legal term)2. concessio • yielding (subs.): 1. cessio (surrendering, a legal term): a y. in point of right, in jure c., Cic. Top. 5, 28. 2. concessio: by our y. they have lost all the force of their right, nostra concessione omnem vim sui juris amiserunt, Cic. Att. 3, 24, 1. Generally the subs. yielding would be expressed by a phrase with verb: our y. proves our cause weak, *quod cedimus causam arguit infirmam.