AB ACTIS

Latin: An officer having charge of acta, public records, registers, journals, or minutes; an officer who entered on record the acta or proceedings of a court; a clerk of court; a notary or actuary. Calvin. Lex. Jurid. See “Acta.” This, and the similarly formed epithets d cancellis, a secretin, d libelUs, were also anciently the titles of a chancellor, (cancellarius,) in the early history of that office. Spelman, “Cancellarius.”