cessavit per biennium

cessavit per biennium: He ceased for two years,-a writ, also called a "cessavit" which lay by statute for a landlord to recover land from his tenant after two years of failure to pay rent or to render the prescribed services. The writ also lay for the donor of land to a religious house on condition of performing some religious service, after neglect of such service for two years. See 3 Bl Comm 232.

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cessavit per biennium — /saseyvat par bayeniyam/ An obsolete writ, which could formerly have been sued out when the defendant had for two years ceased or neglected to perform such service or to pay such rent as he was bound to do by his tenure, and had not upon his… … Black's law dictionary
cessavit per biennium — /saseyvat par bayeniyam/ An obsolete writ, which could formerly have been sued out when the defendant had for two years ceased or neglected to perform such service or to pay such rent as he was bound to do by his tenure, and had not upon his… … Black's law dictionary
Cessavit — A cessavit was a writ in English law, originating in Stat. 6 Edw. I., given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure. It was abolished in 3 and 4 Wm. IV. The forms and species of … Wikipedia

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