Cessavit vs Cessor - What's the difference?
cessavit | cessor |
(UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
(Webster 1913)
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(legal) In English law, one who is dilatory, negligent, and delinquent in his duty or service, and who thereby incurred the danger of the law, and was liable to have the writ of cessavit brought against him.
(obsolete) One who determined the amount of a cess; an assessor.