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cessor

cessor noun: 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.

Noun (1)

cessor (plural cessors)

  1. 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.
    • If there be lord and tenant, and the tenant take a wife, and afterwards cesseth, upon which the lord bringeth a cessavit, and recovers, and enters into the tenancy, and the tenant dies: it seems clear, that the wife shall have dower; for no laches or default can be deemed in the wife as to the...1827, John Perkins, A Profitable Book, Treating of the Laws of England

Noun (2)

cessor (plural cessors)

  1. (obsolete) One who determined the amount of a cess; an assessor.
    • [Y]et some there be of that nature, that though they be in private men, yet their evil reacheth to a general hurt, as the extortion of sheriffs and their sub-sheriffs, and bayliffes, the corruption of victuallers, cessors, and purveyors, the disorders of seneschalls, captaines, and their souldiers...1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...

Forms of cessor

pluralcessors

Origin of cessor

From cess (“to cease to perform a legal duty”) + -or.

From cess (“to determine the amount of a cess”) + -or.

Questions about cessor

What does cessor mean?
Cessor means 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.
What part of speech is cessor?
Cessor is a noun.
What is the plural of cessor?
The plural of cessor is cessors.

Words near cessor in the dictionary

  1. cessments
  2. Cessna
  3. Cessnas
  4. Cessnock
  5. Cesson
  6. cessor
  7. cessors
  8. cesspipe
  9. cesspipes
  10. cesspit
  11. cesspits

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