English-Norwegian translations for excuss

Definition of excuss

• To shake off
• To decipher
• To proceed against a principal debtor where there are either joint debtors or debtors and sureties

Examples

• The surety claimed relief in terms of the beneficium excussionis, thus obliging the creditor to excuss against the principal debtor.

Related words

• excuse
• inexcusable
• excused
• excusable
• inexcusably
• excuser
• excuse me
• excuse oneself
• ignorance is no excuse in law