CET. 
person surrenders and transmits to another 
person, a right which belonged to hinisell'. 
Cession is more parficidarly used in the ci- 
vil law for a voluntary surrender of a per- 
son’s effects to his creditors, to avoid im- 
prisonment. 
Cession, in the ecclesiastical law, is 
when an ecclesiastical person is created a 
bishop, or when a parson of a parish takes 
another benefice without dispensation, or 
being otherwise qualified. In both these 
cases therr first benefices become void by 
cession, without any resignation ; and to 
those livings that the person had, who was 
created bishop, the King may present for 
that time, whosoever is patron of them ; 
and in the other case the patron may pre- 
sent} but by dispensation of retainder, a 
bishop may retain some or .all the prefei'- 
ments he was entitled to, before he was 
made bishop. 
. CESTRUM, in botany, English bastard 
jasmine, a genus of the Pentandria Monogy- 
nia class and order. Natural order of Lu- 
ridm. Solaneas, Jussieu. Essential charac- 
ter : corolla funnel-form ; stamens emitting 
q too tlilet from their middle; berry unilo- 
cular. There are nine species, of which 
C. nocturnum, night smelling cestrum, is 
about seven feet high, covered with a grey- 
ish bark, and divides upward into many 
slender branches, which generally incline 
to one side .; they are garnished with leaves 
placed alternately, nearly four inches long, 
and one and a half broad ; the flowers are 
produced at the wings of the leaves, in small 
clusters, standing upon short peduncles, each 
sustaining four or five flowers, of an herba- 
ceous colour. They appear in August, but 
are not succeeded hy berries in this coun- 
try ; those which come from America are 
small, and are of a dark brown colour. It 
is a native of the island of Cuba. 
CESTUI, a French word, signifying he 
or him, frequently used in our law-writings. 
Thus “ cestui qui trust,” a person who has 
lands, &c. committed to him for the bene- 
fit of another ; and if such person does not 
perform his trust, he is compellable to it in 
Chancery. “ Cestui qui vie,” one for whose 
life any lands, &c. are granted. “ Cestui 
qui use,” a person to whose use any one is 
infeoffed of lands or tenements. Formerly 
the feoffees to . uses were deemed owners 
of the land, but now the possession is ad- 
judged in cestui qui use. 
CETE, in natural history, the seventh 
order of Mammalia, in the Linnajan system 
of animals, including the four genera. Mo- 
CET 
bodon, or narval ; Batena, whale ; Physe- 
ter, cachalot ; and Uelphmus, dolphin. The 
cfdaceoiis tribe has one or more spiracles 
placed on the fore part of the skull ; no 
feet; pectoral fins without nails, and tail 
horizontal. The cetaceous order of animals 
has nothing peculiar to fish, except living 
in the same element, and being endowed 
with the same powers of progressive mo- 
tion as those fishes which are intended to 
move with considerable velocity. Tlie po- 
pular idea of cetaceous animals being fishes 
is so strongly impressed on the public mmd, 
that it can never, perhaps, be entirely re- 
moved, for the critical observations of na- 
turalists appear too abstruse to be gene- 
rally examined, and of consequence to be 
commonly understood. The cetaceous 
tribes live in the same element as fishes, 
and, partaking somewhat of their external 
figure, will ever be considered as appertain- 
ing to that class of animals by the less in- 
formed portion of mankind. 
Cetaceous animals, or, as Dr. Shaw ex- 
presses them, “ fish-fornred mamnralia,” 
have lungs, intestines, and other internal or- 
gans, formed on the same principle as in 
quadrupeds; and, indeed, on strict compa- 
rison, the principal differences that exist 
betweeir them will rrot be found very con- 
siderable ; one of the most material seems 
to consist in their want of posterior legs, 
the peculiar structure of the tail supplying 
that defect, this being extremely strong 
and tendinous, and divided into two hori- 
zontal lobes, but which has no internal 
bones. Like quadrupeds, they have a heart 
furnished with two auricles, and two ven- 
tricles, and their blood is w'arm and red : 
they breathe by their lungs, and not by 
means of gills, as in true fishes. In their 
amours they agree with quadrupeds ; the 
female produces her young alive, which 
rarely happens among fishes, and she suckles 
them with her teats, as in the true mamma- 
lia. The structure of their brain, their sex- 
ual organs, stomach, and liver, resemble 
those of mammiferoHs animals. Their skin 
is smooth, or not covered with scales ; and 
their tail is placed in a position the very re- 
verse of fishes, in being alw'ays flat and ho- 
rizontal, instead of vertical. The cetaceous 
animals, the cachalot and dolphin genera, 
have the mouth armed with conic teeth ; 
the whales with horny laininap, in the upper 
jaw ; and the narval with teeth, or tusks 
of enormous length. They are neither san- 
guinary nor ferocious. Their stomachs are 
large, and divided into chambers to the 
