discussion (disk us hon)

[= D. discus sie = G. discu ion = Dan. Sw. disku ion, The authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discu ion and of individual action never before known. Macaulay. 3. In civil law , the act of exhausting legal proceedings against a debtor or his property before proceeding against the property of a person secondarily liable for the debt. Benefit of discu ion, in civil law, the right of a person liable to pay a certain sum, in case of the failure to pay it of the person primarily liable, to require a diligent attempt to be made to collect it by law from the latter before demand is made upon himself: a right in Louisiana ordinarily belonging to a guarantor and to the purchaser of property subject to a mortgage, when part of the mortgaged property is still owned by the mortgager, etc. - Discu ion of property, in French - Canadian law, the selling of the property of a debtor by due proce of law at the instance of a creditor, and the application of the proceeds to the payment of the debt. See benefice.