frequently abbreviated into Ciissio. A judicial procedure resembling that under the Insolvency Acts. It can be commenced only by a debtor who is or has been under, or is threatened with, arrest. The debtor is examined in Court, after notice to his creditors, and the Court may then pronounce decree of cessio, the effect of which is to free
the debtor from liability to arrest for any prior debt, and to transfer his whole property, present and future, to a trustee, for payment of his creditors. The income of a benefice, salary of an office, half-pay of an officer, &c., are subject to this decree, such portion only being reserved to the debtor as in the opinion of the Court is necessary for his sustenance.

Source: Kinnear, Digest of House of Lords cases (1865), pg. 350.