Cessio In Jure
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In Roman law. A fictitious suit, in which the person who was to acquire the thing claimed (vindicabat) 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 (addicebat) of the claimant Sandars' Just. Inst. (5th Ed.) 89, 122.