cessor

The English word “cessor” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

In English law, one who is dilatory, negligent, and delinquent in his duty or service, and who thereby incurred the danger of the law, and was liable to have the writ of cessavit brought against him.
One who determined the amount of a cess; an assessor.

From cess (“to cease to perform a legal duty”) + -or.

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