ACCOUNT

A detailed statement of the mutual demands in the nature of debt and credit between parties, arising out of contracts or some fiduciary relation. Whitwell v. Willard, 1 Mete. (Mass.) 216; Blakeley v. Biscoe, 1 Hempst. 114, Fed. Cas. No. 18,239; Portsmouth v. Donaldson, 32 Pa. 202, 72 Am. Dec. 782. A statement in writing, of debts and credits, or of receipts and payments; a list of items of debts and credits, with their respective dates. Rensselaer Glass Factory v. Reid, 5 Cow. (N. Y.) 593. The word is sometimes used to denote the balance, or the right of action for the balance, appearing due upon a statement of dealings; as where one speaks of an assignment of accounts; but there is a broad distinction between an account arid the mere balance of an account, resembling the distinction in logic between the premises of an argument and the conclusions drawn therefrom. A balance is but the conclusion or result of the debit and credit sides of an account. It implies mutual dealings, and the existence of debt and credit, without which there could be no balance. McWil lianis v. Allan, 45 Mo. 574. Account closed. An account to which no further additions can be made on either side, but which remains still open for adjustment and set off, which distinguishes it from an account stated. Bass v. Bass, 8 Pick. (Mass.) 187; Volkening v. De Graaf, 81 N. Y. 268; Mandeville v. Wilson, 5 Cranch, 15, 3 L. Ed. 23. Account current. An open or running or unsettled account between two parties. Account duties. Duties payable by the English customs and inland revenue act, 1881, (44 Vict. c. 12,