Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In English law, formerly, a writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant or occupier had ceased for two years to perform the service which constituted the condition of his tenure, and had not sufficient goods or chattels to be distrained, or when the tenant had so inclosed the land that the lord could not come upon it to distrain. This writ was abolished by 3 and 4 Wm. IV., xxvii.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
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- noun UK, law, obsolete A
writ given bystatute torecover lands when thetenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of histenure .
Etymologies
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Ex una sola evacuatione furor cessavit et quietus inde vixit.
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There was a similarly large celebration when Louis was born: "civitas Parisii in qua natus est, tanto gaudio fuit repleta, quod per septem dies … populus totius civitatis, laudes debitas solventes creatori suo, ducendo choreas canere non cessavit" (Delaborde, 1: 81 — 82).
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Alypius, juvaretque provinciae rector, metuendi globi flammarum prope fundamenta crebris assultibus erumpentes fecere locum exustis aliquoties operantibus inaccessum; hocque modo elemento destinatius repellente, cessavit inceptum.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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And _Ethelwaldus_: _A tempore Romæ à Gothis expugnatæ, cessavit imperium Romanorum à Britannia insula, & ab aliis; quas sub jugo servitutis tenebant, multis terris_.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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Cum itaque rei fortiter instaret Alypius, juvaretque provinciae rector, metuendi globi flammarum prope fundamenta crebris assultibus erumpentes fecere locum exustis aliquoties operantibus inaccessum; hocque modo elemento destinatius repellente, cessavit inceptum.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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