surrender documents
Terms of defeat
Surrender documents are the formal papers signed to end hostilities between warring parties.
They record the terms under which one side ceases resistance—whether unconditional or negotiated.
The most famous examples include Japan's instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri in 1945.
In legal contexts, surrender documents may also refer to papers transferring property rights or relinquishing a lease.
- capitulationComplete yielding to demands
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- signingInscribing one's name
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
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Formal end to hostilities
armistice agreement · ceasefire agreement · ultimatum · negotiated settlement · mutual defense pact
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Formal announcement of hostilities
war declaration · mobilization orders · call to arms · ultimatum · casus belli
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