(L. ‘cession of goods’) = CESSION 3 b: in Sc. Law, a legal proceeding by which a debtor is entitled to be free from imprisonment, if innocent of fraud, on surrendering his whole means and estate to his creditors.
1861. Strathearn Herald, 2 March, 2/5. ‘The law of Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Cessio Bonorum in Scotland.’ By ‘The Old Lawyer.’
