(verb) – v. In old English law. To cease, stop, determine, fail.
(noun) – An assessment or tax. In Ireland, it was anciently applied to an exaction of victuals, at a certain rate, for soldiers in garrison. Cena regnare, si non vi judicare. Cease to reign, if you wish not to adjudicate. Hob. 155. Cessanto causa, cessat effectus. The cause ceasing, the effect ceases. Broom, Max. 160. Cessanto ratione legis, cessat et ipsa lex. The reason of the law ceasing, the law itself ceases also. Co. Litt. 70o; 2 Bl. Comm. 390, 391; Broom, Max. 159. Cessanto statu prlmitivo, cessat derivations. When the primitive or original estate determines, the derivative estate determines also. 8 Coke, 34; Broom, Max. 495.