Cessare

I. To cease; to stay, stop. Cessante causa, cessat effectus: the cause ceasing, so does the effect. Cessante ratioue legis, cessat et ipsa lex: the reason of the law ceasing, so does the law itself. Cessavit per biennium: the writ of an obsolete real action for the recovery of land, which lay for a lord against a tenant in fee who ceased during two yean to pay rent or perform services; also against a religious house who held lands by spiritual services or alms, when there was not enough goods and chattels on the land for a distress. Cesset e^ecutio, or processus: let the execution or process be stayed; the old formal order, and entry on the record, for such delay.