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Ab Actis

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Lat. An officer having charge of acta, public records, registers, journals, or minutes; an officer who entered on record the acta or proceedings of a court; a elerk of court; a notary or actuary.

Calvin.

Lex. Jurid. See “Acta.” This, and the similarly formed epithets & cancellis, & secrehistory of that office. Spelman, “Cancellarius.”