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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 768 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CESSIO BONORUM (Latin for a " surrender of goods ")  , in See also:

Roman See also:law, a voluntary surrender of goods by a debtor to his creditors . It did not amount to a See also:discharge unless the See also:property ceded was sufficient for the purpose, but it secured the debtor from See also:personal See also:arrest . The creditors sold the goods in See also:satisfaction, See also:pro tanto, of their claims . The See also:procedure of cessio bonorum avoided See also:infamy, and the debtor, though his after-acquired property might be proceeded against, could not be deprived of the See also:bare necessaries of See also:life . The See also:main features of the Roman law of cessio bonorum were adopted in Scots law, and also in the See also:French legal See also:system .

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