cessavit

English

Etymology

Latin , meaning "he has ceased".

Noun

cessavit (plural cessavits)

  1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cessavit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

cessāvit

  1. third-person singular perfect active indicative of cessō
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