Cessavit

Cessavit, a writ which lay (by the Statute of Gloucester, 6 Edw. 1, c. 4, and Westminster 2, 13 Edw. 1, c. 21), when a man who held lands by rent or other services neglected or ceased to perform his services for two years together, or where a religious house had lands given to it, on condition of performing some certain spiritual services, as reading prayers, giving alms, etc., and neglected it; in either of which cases, if the cesser or neglect had continued for two years, the lord or donor, and his heirs, had a writ of cessavit to recover the land itself, Fitz., N. B. 208. This writ was abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27.