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Actuary






Actuary

A clerk in some corporations vested with various powers.

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Clerk
1) Commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. 2) Ecclesiastical law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk. 3) A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the transactions of the tribunal or body to which he belongs. Some clerks, however, have little or no writing to do in their offices, as, the clerk of the market, whose duties are confined chiefly to superintending the markets.



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Actual
Real; actual.

Actual damages
Reward of the actual loss resulting from a breach of contract, such as the disputed payments under the contract.

Actual fault or privity
A faulty act or omission of a party, or his knowledge of or complicity with the faulty act or omission of another for whose conduct he is responsible.

Actuarius
An ancient name or appellation of a notary.

Actus
A foot way and horse way.

Actus doi nomini facit injuriam
An act of God does wrong to no one.

Actus legis nomini faeit injuriam
An act of the law wrongs no man.

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea
An act does not make a man a criminal, unless his intention be criminal. To constitute a crime the intent and the act must concur; a mere overt act, without wrongful intention, does not make guilt.

Actus reus
(United Kingdom) A guilty deed or act.



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Acts of sederunt
In the laws of Scotland, are ordinances for regulating theforms of proceeding, before the court of session, in the administration ofjustice, made by the judges, who have a delegated power from the legislaturefor that purpose.

Actual
Real; actual.

Actual damages
Reward of the actual loss resulting from a breach of contract, such as the disputed payments under the contract.

Actual fault or privity
A faulty act or omission of a party, or his knowledge of or complicity with the faulty act or omission of another for whose conduct he is responsible.

Actuarius
An ancient name or appellation of a notary.

Actuary

Actus
A foot way and horse way.

Actus doi nomini facit injuriam
An act of God does wrong to no one.

Actus legis nomini faeit injuriam
An act of the law wrongs no man.

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea
An act does not make a man a criminal, unless his intention be criminal. To constitute a crime the intent and the act must concur; a mere overt act, without wrongful intention, does not make guilt.

Actus reus
(United Kingdom) A guilty deed or act.

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