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ex·cuss
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excussverb
To shake off.
excussverb
To examine (a document).
excussverb
To decipher.
excussverb
To seize and detain by law.
excussverb
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.
Etymology: excussus (past participle of excutere).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To EXCUSSverb
To seize and detain by law.
Etymology: excussus, Lat.
The person of a man ought not, by the civil law, to be taken for a debt, unless his goods and estate has been first excussed. John Ayliffe, Parergon.
Webster Dictionary
Excussverb
to shake off; to discard
Excussverb
to inspect; to investigate; to decipher
Excussverb
to seize and detain by law, as goods
Etymology: [L. excussus. p. p. of excutere to shake off; ex out, from + quatere to shake. Cf. Quash.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of excuss in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of excuss in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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