Cessio Bonorum

Lat. In the Roman law. A cession, or giving up of goods. The surrender of cm a debtor's property to his creditors, by which, under the law of cession introduced by the christian emperors, he obtained an exemption of his person from imprisonment, and all bodily punishment, {omni quoqvscorporali cruciatu semoto,) 2 £1.

Com. 473.

This term is now applied, in the modem jurisprudence of most of the states of Europe, and also in American law, to the surrender of an insolvent's estate and effects to hb creditors.

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Inst, b.

4, tit. 3, § 26. 3 Burgees Col. db For. Law, 890, et seq. 1 Kent^s Cotn. 422. 247. 2 Id. 396, note.