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Accountant

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

One who keeps accounts; a person skilled in keeping books or accounts; an expert in accounts or bookkeeping.

A person who renders an account

When an executor, guardian, etc., renders an account of the property in his hands and his administration of the trust, either to the beneficiary or to a court, heis styled, for the purpose of that proceeding, the “accountant.”