Account
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
ACTION OF (sometimes called "Account," or "Account Render"). An action or writ which lay against one who was required, by his oificial or fiduciary position, to render an account. in which are entered from time to time the transactions of his trade or business. Such books, when regularly kept, may be admitted in evidence.
Greenl. Ev. §5 115-118,