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Accountant

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

One who is versed In accounts. A person or officer appointed to keep the accounts of a public company. A certified public accountant is one who is certified by proper authority to be competent to examine and report on accounts. He who renders to another or to a court a just and detailed statement of the property which he holds as trustee, executor, administrator, or guardian.

See 16 Viner, Abr. 155.