cessor

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CESSOR, noun 1. In law, he that 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.] 2. An assessor, or taxer.
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