Cessio bonorum, (Latin: "a cession of goods"), in Roman law, a voluntary surrender of goods by a debtor to his creditors.
A BrightHouse spokesman said it was impossible to comment on Freda's case because she did not want to be identified, but added, "We are surprised and disappointed by her complaint… Customer surrender of goods is always a last resort".
Why did Roman society, from the bottom to the very top, progressively adopt a religion that appeared to promote the surrender of worldly goods to the poor?
When Charles X of Sweden invaded Poland in 1655, Czarniecki distinguished himself by his defence of Kraków, which he eventually surrendered on good terms, retreating with his army.
Spenser may have witnessed the massacre at Smerwick in November 1580, when Grey ordered the slaughter of Spanish and Italian troops who had surrendered on assurances of good treatment.
Germany will not deliberately surrender its position as the world's top exporter of goods, says Bert Rürup, a former head of the government's committee of economic "wise men" now at AWD Holding, a financial-advice firm.
As one participant suggested, 'in our building, you'd feel ashamed if you wear a torn sandal and mended slacks [ 62].' At issue may be the scale of consumption and the surrender to the globalized mythos of 'modern living' through the acquisition of goods beyond those considered socially necessary.
This voluntary surrender of power, by a man in good health, and a man as confident of his judgment and abilities as is the leading citizen of Johnson City, should not, we think be construed as a defeat, for it is very likely that if he had so chosen he would have won the nomination and, after that, the election.
The surrender of General Hashem was a welcome bit of good news to the White House.
At the New Year's Festival, more than 220 people from the New York metropolitan region and as far away as Washington State surrendered to five days of good food, spirited talk and four movies a day.
The surrender of privacy can lead to a rise in transparency, which, on a good day, can have a mitigating effect.
