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Cessio In Jure

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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. CESSION (Lat. cessio, a yielding). In Civil Law. An assignment. The act by which a party transfers property to another. In Ecclesiastical Law. A surrender. When an ecclesiastic is created bishop, or when a parson takes another benefice, without dispensation, the first benefice becomes void by a legal cession or surrender. Cowell. In Governmental Law. The transfer of land by one government to another.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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.