Discussion

[Lat. discussio, excusio,\ In the civil law. The exhausting of a remedy against a principal debtor, beiore proceeding against the surety.* Story^s Conf, of iaw St § 322 b. Burge on Suretyship, 329, et seq. The creditor must first proceed against the principal and discuss him, before resorting to the surety. Id. ibid. This privilege of a surety was called in the Roman law, heneficium or dims, or excussionis. The word radically imports a thorough examination or search, as by shaking apart, (discutiendo,) or shf Jcing out (excutiendo,) DISFRANCfflSK To deprive or divest certain places or persons of any privilege, freedom, liberty or franchise. See ^anchise, -