Cessio In Jure
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Romanlaw. A fictitious suit, in which the person who wss to acquire the thing claimed (vindicaliat) the thing as his own, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the justice of the claim, and the magistrate pronounced it to be the property (addiecbat) of the claimant.
Sandars’ Just. Inst. (4th Ed.) 89, 122.