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Cessante ratione legis, cessat ipsa lex






Cessante ratione legis, cessat ipsa lex

A Latin maxim, meaning "When the reason for the law ends, the law itself lapses".

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Maxim
An established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being just and consonant With reason.

Reason
By reason is usually understood that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong; and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends



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Cessavit
English law. 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 cbattels to be distrained.

Cesser clause
A clause in a charterparty which releases the charterer from his personal liability to the shipowner and substitutes the bill of lading (supra) holder as the debtor. The substituted bill of lading holder thus becomes personally liable for the charges and the shipowner waives his rights against the charterer.

Cesset executio
The staying of an execution.

Cesset processus
Practice. An entry made on the record that there be a stay of the procas or proceedings.

Cessio bonorum
Civil law. The relinquishment which a debtor made of his property for the benefit of his creditors

Cession
1) Civil law. The act by which a party assigns or transfers property to a other; an assignment. 2) contracts. Yielding up; release. 3) Ecclesiastical law. When an ecclesiastic is created bishop, or when a parson takes another benefice, without dispensation, the first benefice becomes void by a legal cession, or surrender.



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Certificate, judge's
English practice. The judge who tries the cause is authorized by several statutes in certain cases to certify, so as to decide when the party or parties shall or shall not be entitled to costs.

Certification
1) Written attestation. 2) Authorized declaration verifying that an instrument is a true and correct copy of the original.

Certification or certificate of assise
A term used in the old English law, applicable to a writ granted for the reexamination or re-trial of a matter passed by assise before justices.

Certified copy
A copy of the document contained in the court file. it includes a stamped seal confirming that the copy is indeed a true and correct copy of the document contained in the court file.

Certiorari
(United Kingdom) A writ from a High Court to a lower Court.

Cessante ratione legis, cessat ipsa lex

Cessavit
English law. 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 cbattels to be distrained.

Cesser clause
A clause in a charterparty which releases the charterer from his personal liability to the shipowner and substitutes the bill of lading (supra) holder as the debtor. The substituted bill of lading holder thus becomes personally liable for the charges and the shipowner waives his rights against the charterer.

Cesset executio
The staying of an execution.

Cesset processus
Practice. An entry made on the record that there be a stay of the procas or proceedings.

Cessio bonorum
Civil law. The relinquishment which a debtor made of his property for the benefit of his creditors

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