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In English ecclesiastical law. A clerk that registers the acts and constitutions of the lower house of convocation; or a registrar in a court christian. Also an officer appointed to keep savings banks accounts; the computing officer of an Insurance company; a person skilled in calculating the value of life' interests, annuities, and insurances. … [Read more...] about ACTUARY

In French law, denotes a document, or formal, solemn writing, embodying a legal attestation that something has been done, corresponding to one sense or use of the English word "act." Thus, actes de naissance are the certificates of birth, and must contain the day, hour, and place of birth, together with the sex and intended christian name of the child, and the names of the … [Read more...] about ACTE

An affirmative petitory action for the recognition and enforcement of a servitude. So called because based on the plaintiffs affirmative allegation of a right in defendant's land. Distinguished from an actio negntoria, which was brought to repel a claim of the defendant to a servitude In the plaintiffs land. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...] about ACTIO CONFESSORIA

An action for the partition of an inheritance. Inst. 4, 6, 20; Id. 4, 17, 4. Called, by Bracton and Fleta, a mixed action, and classed among actions arising em quasi contractu. Bract, fol. 1005; Id. fols. 4436, 444; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, … [Read more...] about ACTIO FAMILIES ERDSCUNDSS

In English pleading. A name given to the distinctive clause in the plea to the further maintenance of the action, introduced in plact of the plea puis darrein continuance; the averment being that the plaintiff ought not further (ulterius) to have or maintain his action. Steph. PI. 64, 65, 401. … [Read more...] about ACTIO NON ULTERIUS