cesti

Plural of cestus1. Cestidæ (ses'ti-dē), n. pl. [NL., If the parts of the strucken body be so easily ce ible as without difficulty a stroke can divide them. Sir K. Digby . ce io bonorum (sesh'iō bō-nō'rum). [L.: ces sio , yielding; bonorum , gen. of bona , goods: see ce ion and bona .] The surrender of one's a ets; in Scots law , a yielding or surrender of property or goods, a legal proceeding by which a debtor is entitled to be free from imprison- B ment, if innocent of fraud, on surrendering his whole means and estate to his creditors. Any property accumulated after this surrender is, however, liable to attachment so long as the debt is not wholly paid off. ce ion (sesh'on), n. [= F. ce ion = Sp. cesion = Pg. ce ão = It. ce ione , n- ), a yielding, ce us , pp. of cedere , yield, give way, cede: see cede .] 1. The act of yielding or giving way; conce ion. For excusations, ce ions , modesty itself, well governed, are but arts of ostentation. Bacon , Vain Glory. No wise man ever lost anything by ce ion . Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 253. 21. A yielding to physical force or impulse. If there be a mere yielding or ce ion [in a body struck] it produceth no sound. Bacon , Nat. Hist. 3. The act of ceding, yielding, or surrendering, as territory, property, or rights; 33; a giving up, resignation, or surrender. A ce ion of Flanders to that crown [France] in exchange for other provinces. Sir W. Temple . The ce ion of her claims on the earldom of Angus by Lady Margaret had won to Darnley's side the powerful and dangerous Earl of Morton, and had alienated from Murray the kindred houses of Ruthven and Lindsay. Froude, Hist. Eng., II. ix. 4. In civil law, a voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment. See ce io bonorum. - 5. Eccles., the leaving of one benefice in consequence of accepting another, the incumbent not having a dispensation entitling him to hold both. ce ionary (sesh'on-a-ri), a. and n. [= F. ces sionnaire = Sp. cesionario = Pg. It. ce ion a rio, II. n.; pl. ce ionaries (-riz). In Rom . law , one to whom property has been a igned or conveyed; a transferee, a ignee, or grantee. The parties, cedent and ce ionary , appeared before the magistrate; the ce ionary, taking the position of plaintiff, declared the thing his in quiritary right. Encyc . Brit ., XX. 690.