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  • CESSIO
    Lat. A cession; a giving up, or relinquishment; a surrender; an assignment.
  • CESSIO BONORUM
    In Roman law. Cession of goods. A surrender, relinquishment, or assignment of all his property and effects made by an insolvent debtor for the benefit of his creditors. The effect of this voluntary action on the debtor's part was to secure him against imprisonment or any bodily punishment, and from More...
  • CESSIO IN JURE
    In Roman law. A fictitious suit, in which the person who was to acquire the thing claimed (vindicabat) the thing as his own, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the justice of the claim, and the magistrate prouounced it to be the property (addicebat) of the claimant. Sandars' More...
  • CESSION
    The act of ceding; a yielding or giving up; surrender; relinquishment of property or rights. In the civil law. An assignment. The act by which a party transfers property to another. T?he surrender or assignment of property for the benefit of one's creditors. In ecclesiastical. law. A giving up or More...
  • CESSION DES BIENS
    In French law. The surrender which a debtor makes of all his goods to his creditors, when he finds himself in Insolvent circumstances. It is of two kinds, either voluntary or compulsory, (judiciaire,) corresponding very nearly to liquidation by arrangement and bankruptcy in English and American law.
  • CESSION OF GOODS
    The surrender of property; the relinquishment that a debtor makes of all his property to his creditors, when he finds himself unable to pay his debts. Civil Code Eh. art 2170.
  • CESSIONARY
    In Scotch law. An assignee. Bell.
  • CESSIONARY BANKRUPT
    One who gives up his estate to be divided among his creditors.
  • CESSMENT
    An assessment, or tax.
  • CESSOR
    One who ceases or neglects so long to perform a duty that he thereby incurs the danger of the law. O. N. B. 136.
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