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Actuary

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The manager of a jointstock company, particularly an insurance company. Penny, Cyc. A clerk, in some corporations vested with various powers. In Ecclesiastical Law. A clerk who registers the acts and constitutions of the convocation. ACTUM (Lat. agere). A deed; something done. Datum relates to the time of the delivery of the instrument; actum, the time of making it; factum, the thing made. Gestum denotes a thing done without writing; actum, a thing done in writing. Du Cagne, "Actus." ACTUS (Lat. agere, to do; actus, done). —:

In Roman Law

A servitude which carried the right of driving animals and vehicles across the lands of another. It included also the iter, or right of passing across on foot or on horseback. In English Law. An act of parliament.

8 Coke, 40.

A foot and horse way.

Co. Litt. 56a.