Note: According to the dictionary definition of cede as given above, there is no strict requirement that a "receiving country" be designated in order to complete the act of ceding, or making a cession.

When territory is ceded without the specification of a "receiving country" it may simply be called a limbo cession.

1. In the April 11, 1899, Treaty of Paris (aka Spanish - American Peace Treaty), Cuba was a "limbo cession."

2. In the April 28, 1952, San Francisco Peace Treaty (SFPT), Taiwan was a "limbo cession."

3. Any claim that the ROC had to Formosa in 1945 (as a result of the specifications of General Order no.1) was lost as of late April 1952 because that claim was neither confirmed in the Treaty nor perfected. After all, the ROC cannot claim title to a limbo cession.

4. When any territory is separated from its "mother country" in a peace treaty after war, but the "receiving state" (or "receiving country") of the transfer of legal ownership (i.e. sovereignty) is not specifically stated or specified, some people consider this to be a situation of incomplete cession. In fact, it is more properly viewed as a limbo cession.

5. The US Supreme Court has ruled that where the United States is the principal occupational authority, the sovereignty of a limbo cession is held in trust by the USMG as an interim status condition.