Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

beneficium ordinis

[Latin "privilege of order"] Roman & Scots law. A surety's right to require a creditor to seek payment from the principal debtor before seeking payment from the surety. See B& N19FICE DE DISCUSSION."Beneficium Ordinis . . . by the civil law and our own, a cautioner, simply bound as such, is entitled to insist that the principal be first discussed by extreme diligence." Hugh Barclay, A Digest of the Law of Scotland 76 (3d ed. 1865).