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  • CERVUS
    Lat. A stag or deer.
  • CESIONARIO
    In Spanish law. An assignee. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 10, c 1, § 3.
  • CESS
    v. In old English law. To cease, stop, determine, fail.
  • CESS
    n. An assessment or tax. In Ireland, it was anciently applied to an exaction of victuals, at a certain rate, for soldiers in garrison. Cena regnare, si non vi jndieare. Cease to reign, if you wish not to adjudicate. Hob. 155. Cessanto causa, ccssat effeetus. The cause ceasing, the effect More...
  • CESSARE
    L. Lat. To cease, stop, or stay.
  • CESSAVIT PER BIENNIUM
    In practice. An obsolete writ, which could formerly have been sued out when the defendant had for two years ceased or neglected to perform such service or to pay such rent as he was bound to do by his tenure, and had not upon his lands sufficient goods or chattels More...
  • CESSE
    (1) An assessment or tax; (2) a tenant of land was said to ccsse when he neglected or ceased to perform the services due to the lord. Co. Litt 373a, 380b.
  • CESSER
    Neglect; a ceasing from, or omission to do, a thing. 3 Bl. Comm. 232. The determination of an estate. 1 Coke, 84; 4 Kent Comm. 33, 90, 105, 295. The "cesser'' of a term, annuity, or the like, takes place when it determines or comes to an end. The expression More...
  • CESSET EXECUTIO
    (Let execution stay.) In practice. A stay of execution; or an order for such stay; the entry of such stay on record. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1104.
  • CESSET PROCESSUS
    (Let process stay.) A stay of proceedings entered on the record
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