Ministerial Act
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A ministerial act may be defined to be one which a person performs ina given state of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, without regard to or the exercise of his own judgment, upon the propriety of the act being done. Acts done out of court in bringing parties into court are, as a general proposition, ministerial acts.
54 Ind. 376.