Obs. Also 6 sese. [Variant of CEASE v.; after special senses of OF. cesser.]

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  1.  intr. To cease to perform a legal duty: cf. CESSAVIT.

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1555.  Perkins, Prof. Bk., v. § 374 (1642), 162. If there bee Lord Mesne and Tenant and the Tenant doth cesse. Ibid., § 389. 168. If … the Tenant take a wife and afterwards cesseth.

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1670.  Blount, Law Dict., s.v. Cessor, Where it is said the Tenant cesseth … the Tenant ceaseth to do what he ought.

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1741.  T. Robinson, Gavelkind, II. vi. 253, note. If a Tenant cessed to pay his Rent for two Years.

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  2.  trans. To cede, give up, surrender.

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1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccxii. 259. They [are] to transport, cesse, and leaue eche kyng to other perpetuelly, al the right that they ought to haue in all these sayd thynges. Ibid., 258. We transport and sese all the right that we might have in any of these thynges.

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