cesset executio

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cesset executio - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  CESSET EXECUTIO. The staying of an execution. 
       2. When a judgment has been entered, there is sometimes, by the 
  agreement of the parties, a cesset executio for a period of time fixed upon 
  and when the defendant enters security for the amount of the judgment, there 
  is a cesset executio until the time allowed by law has expired.