EXPROMMISSOR

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EXPROMMISSOR, civil law. By this term is understood the person who alone 
  becomes bound for the debt of another, whether the latter were obligated or 
  not. He differs from a surety, who is bound together with his principal. 
  Dig. 12, 4, 4; Dig. 16, 1, 13; Id. 24, 3, 64, 4; Id. 38, 1, 37, 8.