FIDE-JUSSOR

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fidejussor \Fi`de*jus"sor\, n. [L.: cf. F. fid['e]jusseur.]
     (Civil Law)
     A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a
     guarantor. --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  FIDE-JUSSOR, civil law. One who becomes security for the debt of another, 
  promising to pay it in case the principal does not do so. 
       2. He differs from co-obligor in this, that the latter is equally bound 
  to a debtor with his principal, while the former is not liable till the 
  principal has failed to fulfill his engagement. Dig. 12, 4, 4; Id. 16, 1, 13;
  
  Id. 24, 3, 64; Id. 38, 1, 37; Id. 50, 17, 110, and 14, 6, 20; Hall's Pr. 33; 
  Dunl. Ad. Pr. 300; Clarke's Prax. tit. 63, 4, 5. 
       3. The obligation of the fide-jussor was an accessory contract, for, if 
  the principal obligation was not previously contracted, his engagement then 
  took the name of mandate. Lec. Elem. Sec. 872; Code Nap. 2012.