My law professor told me it was a temporal phrasing: stop doing it (cease), and ...

citizenkeen on Oct 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Un...

My law professor told me it was a temporal phrasing: stop doing it (cease), and don't do it in the future (desist). Otherwise I could stop for one day, or in the age of the internet one minute, and then begin again: I would have ceased and resumed.