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cessionary|ˈsɛʃənərɪ| [ad. med.L. cessionāri-us, f. L. cessio (bonorum) yielding up of goods: see -ary.] †1. A bankrupt who makes cessio bonorum. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Cessionnaire, a cessionarie; one that abandons, or giues vp his goods..who though hee looseth his credit thereby, yet is hee not held so base as a bankrupt. 1632Sherwood, A cessionarie Bankerout, which renounceth his goods in open court, cessionaire. [Similarly in Bailey, Johnson, and mod. Dicts. as adj.] 1694Falle Jersey iv. 111 The last Creditor is asked whether he will substitute, or put himself in the place of the Cessionary. 2. One to whom an assignment has been legally made; an assignee.
1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 342 He who grants the assignation is called the cedent, and he who receives it, the assignee or cessionary. 1818Colebrooke Oblig. & Contracts I. 210 The right passes..from the cedent to the cessionary. 1880Muirhead Gaius ii. §35 The cessionary becomes heir just as if the inheritance had devolved upon him by operation of law. |