"Excuss" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

aláng-álang - Neither "fish, flesh nor fowl”; untimely, inconvenient, immature, not quite qualified or capable; to lack maturity, timeliness, qualities …

(Lat ego, I.) A term denoting direct tenure of the superior lord. 2 Bell, H. L. Sc. 133. Unjustly detaining …

awát - Occupation, business, engagement, work, anything that detains; to keep busy or engaged, to hinder from doing or attending …

bádlan - From balúd for baludán. To be caught—, overrun—, overtaken—, struck—, washed—, by waves. Nabádlan siá. He was caught …

To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a …

In English law. A writ com-manding the mayor of the staple to certify to the lord chancellor a statute-staple taken …

The care and keeping of anything; as when an article is said to be “in the custody of the court.” …

writ for taking cattle in wlth-ernam. A writ which lay where the sheriff returned to a plurics writ of replevin …

He owes and de-tains. words anciently used in the original writ, (aud now, in English, in the plaintiff's declaration,) in …

(For re-storing chattels.) A writ to secure the re-turn specifically of chattels detained from the owner. Cowell

To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, …

To hold or keep in custody.

To keep back or from; to withhold.

To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.

Detention.

of Detain

A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have …

One who detains.

The act (or the juridical fact) of withholding from a person lawfully entitled the possession of land or goods; or …