a. and sb. [ad. L. cēdent-em, pr. pple. of cēdĕre to CEDE.]
† A. as adj. ‘Giving place, departing, yielding.’ Obs. rare–0.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
B. sb. Rom. & Sc. Law. One who assigns property to another.
1592. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1597), § 145. The cedent remainis Rebelle and at the Horne.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 345. Letters of diligence, which have been issued in the name of the cedent, cannot be executed by the messenger in the assignee’s name.
1818. Colebrooke, Oblig. & Contracts, I. 210. The right passes … from the cedent to the cessionary.
[1880. Muirhead, Ulpian, xix. § 9. Cession in court … is accomplished by [co-operation of] three persons,—the cedent, the vindicant, and the addicent.]
