Acting — Law Dictionary

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Performing; operating. See Meyer v. Johnston, 64 Ala. 603, 665. When applied to a supervising executive, it designates, not an appointed incuinbent, but merely a locum tcnens. Fraser v. U. S., 16 Ct. CI. 507. See Ad Interim.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A term employed to designate a locum tenens who is performing the duties of an office to which he does not himself claim title; e. g., "Acting Supervising Architect." Fraser v. United Slates, 16 Ct. Cl. 514. An acting executor is one who assumes to act as executor for a decedent, not being the executor legally appointed or the executor in fact. Morse v. Allen, 99 Mich. 303, 58 N. W. 327. An acting trustee is one who takes upon himself to perform some or all of the trusts mentioned in a will. Sharp v. Sharp, 2 Barn. & Aid. 415.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A term employed to designate a locum terens who is performing the duties of an office to which he does not himself claim title; e. g., “Acting Supervising Architect.” 16 Ct. of Cl. 514.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

Performing; serving; attending to the duties of an office; as, the acting — executor, partner, commissioner of patents, reporter of decisions. Attached to an officer's title, designates not an appointed incumbent, but merely a locum tenens who is performing the duties of an office to which he does not himself claim title.®