Fide-Jussor
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In Roman law. A guarantor ; one who becomes responsible for the payment of another's debt, by a stipulation which binds him to discharge it if the principal debtor fails to do so.
Mackeld. Roin. Law, § 452; 3 Bl. Comm. 108.
The sureties taken on the arrest of a defendant, in the court of admiralty, were formerly denominated "fide ;ussors."
3 Bl. Comm. 108.