cessor

If there be lord and tenant, and the tenant take a wife, and afterwards cesseth, upon which the lord bringeth a cessavit, and recovers, and enters into the tenancy, and the tenant dies: it seems clear, that the wife shall have dower; for no laches or default can be deemed in the wife as to the cessor. But some say, the wife shall not have dower in this case, because the cessor does not lie in any act done by the husband; but it is his not doing...

...yet some there be of that nature, that though they be in private men, yet their evil reacheth to a general hurt; as the extortion of sheriffs and their sub-sheriffs and bailiffs ; the corruption of victuallers, cessors, and purveyors ...