excuss
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin excussus, past participle of excutere (“to shake off”).
Verb[edit]
excuss (third-person singular simple present excusses, present participle excussing, simple past and past participle excussed)
- (obsolete) To shake off.
- (obsolete, transitive) To examine (a document).
- (obsolete, transitive) To decipher.
- (transitive, law) To seize and detain by law.
- (law) To proceed against a principal debtor where there are either joint debtors or debtors and sureties.
- The surety claimed relief in terms of the beneficium excussionis, thus obliging the creditor to excuss against the principal debtor.
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Translations[edit]
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References[edit]
- “excuss”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “excuss”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.