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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....
Cessor
One who neglects for two years to perform the service by which he holds lands so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit See Cessavit...
Cessavit
A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure...
Gavelet
An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent...
Gavelet
Gavelet [fr. gaveletum, Lat.], an ancient and special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. Obsolete. The statute of Gavelet is 10 Edw. 2, 2 Reeves, c. xii., p. 298.A writ used in kent and London to recover rent from land held in gavelkind, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 690....
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