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Cessavit
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CessavitEnglish 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.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
Years
Estate for years.
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
Rent
Estates, contracts. A certain profit in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in retribution for the use.
Tenure
Estates. The manner in which lands or tenements are holden. 2. According to the English law, all lands are held mediately or immediately from the king, as lord paramount and supreme proprietor of all the lands in the kingdom.
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Cessante ratione legis, cessat ipsa lex
A Latin maxim, meaning "When the reason for the law ends, the law itself lapses".
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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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
A Latin maxim, meaning "When the reason for the law ends, the law itself lapses".
Cessavit
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.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal, which commands the person to whom it is addressed, to do something specific. That "person" is typically either a sheriff (who may be instructed to seize property, for example) or a defendant (for whom the writ is the first notice of formal legal action. In these cases, the writ would command the person to answer the charges laid out in the suit, or else judgment may be made against them in their absence).
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
Years
Estate for years.
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
Rent
Estates, contracts. A certain profit in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in retribution for the use.
Tenure
Estates. The manner in which lands or tenements are holden. 2. According to the English law, all lands are held mediately or immediately from the king, as lord paramount and supreme proprietor of all the lands in the kingdom.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Cessante ratione legis, cessat ipsa lex
A Latin maxim, meaning "When the reason for the law ends, the law itself lapses".
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.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
A Latin maxim, meaning "When the reason for the law ends, the law itself lapses".
Cessavit
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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