Definition of "cessavit" []

• A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure. (noun)

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• "Ex una sola evacuatione furor cessavit et quietus inde vixit."
• "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)."
• "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."