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動詞

excuss (三人称単数 現在形 excusses, 現在分詞 excussing, 過去形および過去分詞形 excussed)

1. (obsolete) To shake off.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To examine (a document).
3. (obsolete, transitive) To decipher.
4. (transitive, law) To seize and detain by law.
5. (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.

関連する語

• beneficium excussionis
• excussion

参照

• excuss in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• excuss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913