among logicians, one of the modes of the second figure of syllogisms; the minor proposition of which is an universal affirmative, and the other two universal negatives: Thus,

Ce No immoral books ought to be read: sa But every obscene book is immoral: re Therefore no obscene book ought to be read.

CESSIO honorum, in Scots law. The name of that action by which an insolvent debtor may apply for liberation from prison, upon making over his whole real and personal estate to his creditors. See Scots Law, title, Sentences and their execution.