Excuss
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Excuss is a verb meaning (transitive, law) To seize and detain by law.
Meaning
(transitive, law) To seize and detain by law.
More Meanings
- (law) To proceed against a principal debtor where there are either joint debtors or debtors and sureties.
- (obsolete) To shake off.
- (obsolete, transitive) To examine (a document).
- (obsolete, transitive) To decipher.
Example Sentences
The surety claimed relief in terms of the beneficium excussionis, thus obliging the creditor to excuss against the principal debtor.
Word Forms
- excusses
- excussing
- excussed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exempt, waiver, exemption, discharge, dispensation, derogation.
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