Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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annexation
n. 1. the act of attaching; the state of being attached. 2. property. the point at which a fixture becomes a part of the realty to which it is attached. 3. a formal act by which a nation, state, or municipality incorporates land within its dominion. 0 in international law, the usual formalities of announcing annexation involve having specially commissioned officers hoist the national flag and read a proclamation. 4. the annexed land itself. - annex, ub. cf. accession (5).
cherry-stem annexation
1. annexed land that resembles (on a map) a cherry because the annexed territory - the cherry - is not contiguous to the acquiring municipality, and the narrow corridor of annexed land leading to the targeted area resembles a stem. 2. the process of annexing land with this configuration.