Actuary

The manager of a jointstock company, particularly an insurance company. Penny, Cyc. A clerk, in some corporations vested with various powers. In Ecclesiastical Law. A clerk who registers the acts and constitutions of the convocation. ACTUM (Lat. agere). A deed; something done. Datum relates to the time of the delivery of the instrument; actum, the time of making it; factum, the thing made. Gestum denotes a thing done without writing; actum, a thing done in writing. Du Cagne, "Actus." ACTUS (Lat. agere, to do; actus, done). —:

The manager of a joint stock company, particularly an insurance company. An officer of a mercantile or insurance company skilled in financial calculations, especially respecting such subjects as the expectancy of the duration of life. A clerk, in some corporations vested with various powers. In Ecclesiastical Law. A clerk who regis- ACTUM (Lat. agere). A deed; something done. Datum relates to the time of the delivery of the instrument; actum, the time of making it; factum, the thing made. Gestum, denotes a thing done without writing; actum, a thing done In writing. See Du Cange; Actus. ACTUS (Lat. agere, to do; actus, done). In Civil Law. A thing done. See Actum. A servitude which carried the right of driving animals and vehicles across the lands of another. It included also the iter, or right of passing across on foot or on horseback. In English Law. An act of parliament 8 Coke 40. A foot and horse way. Co. Litt. 56 a. AD (Lat). At; by; for; near; on account of; to; until; upon; with relation to or concerning. AD ABUNDANTIOREM CAUTELAM (Lat) For greater caution. AD ALIUD EXAMEN (Lat). To another tribunal. Calvinus, Lex.

In English ecclesiastical law. <A clerk that registers the acts and constitutions of the lower house of convocation; or a registrar in « court christian. Also an officer appointed to keep savings banks accounts; the computing officer of an insurance company; a person skilled in calculating the value of life interests, annuities, and insurances.

[Lat. actuarius.] A secretary, clerk, or register of any public bodvi or association; particularly of an ecclesiastical body, or court. Cowell. Blofiint. The manager of a joint stock eompany, under a board of directors, particularly of an insurance company; combining with the duties of a secretary, those of a scientific adviser to the board which gives him his office, in all matters involving calculation; a person skilled in the doctrine of life annuities and insurances, and who is in the habit of giving opinions upon cases of annuities, reversions, &c. Stat. 59 Geo, III, c. 128. P. Cyclopedia.