Account Stated
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
An account balanced and rendered, with an assent to such balance, express or implied.
Parker, C. J. 8 Pick. B, 187, 198.
An account current sent by a« foreign merchant to a merchant m this country, and not objected to for two years, is deemed an account stated, and throws the burden of proof upon him who received and kept it without objection.
7 Cranch, 147.
J&ut an account closed by the cessation of dealings between the parties, is not an account stated.
5 Cranch, 15. 8 Pick, vh. sup.
See Insimul comjmtassmt, ACCREDULITARig, L. Lat. To purge an offence by oath.
Blount.