cessio bonorumn.
(Latin ‘cession of goods’) = cession n. 3b: in Scots 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.
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1889 N.E.D. at Cessio bonorum Mod. Sc. Newspr. (heading) Bankruptcies and Cessio Bonorum.
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