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  • ACCOUNTABLE
    Subject to pay; responsible; liable. Where one indorsed a note "A. C. accountable," it was held that, under this form of indorsement, he had waived demand and notice. Furber v. Caverly, 42 N. H. 74.
  • ACCOUNTABLE RECEIPT
    An instrument acknowledging the receipt of money or personal property, coupled with an obligation to account for or pay or deliver the whole or some part of it to some person. State v. Riebe, 27 Minn. 315, 7 N. W. 262.
  • ACCOUNTANT
    One who keeps accounts; a person skilled in keeping books or accounts; an expert in accounts or bookkeeping. A person who renders an account. When an executor, guardian, etc., renders an account of the property in his hands and his administration of the trust, either to the beneficiary or to More...
  • ACCOUNTANT GENERAL, OR ACCOMPTANT GENERAL
    An officer of the court of chancery, appointed by act of parliament to receive all money lodged in court, and to place the same in the Bank of England for security. 12 Geo. I. c. 32; 1 Geo. IV. c. 35; 15 & 16 Vict c. 87, §§ 18-22, 30. More...
  • ACCOUNTING
    The making up and rendition of an account, either voluntarily or by order of a court. Buxton v. Edwards, 134 Mass. 567, 57a. May include payment of the amount due. Pyatt v. Pyatt 46 N. J. Eq. 285, 18 Atl. 1048.
  • ACCOUPLE
    To unite; to marry. Ne unques accouple, never married
  • ACCREDIT
    In international law. (1) To receive as an envoy in his public character, and give him credit and rank accordingly. Burke. (2) To send with credentials as an envoy. Webst Dict.
  • ACCREDULITARE
    L. Lat In old records. To purge an offense by oath. Blount; Whishaw.
  • ACCRESCERE
    In the civil and old English law. To grow to; to pass to, and become united with, as soil to land per alluvionem. Dig. 41, 1, 30, pr.
  • ACCRETION
    The act of growing to a thing; usually applied to the gradual and imperceptible accumulation of land by natural causes, as out of the sea or a river. Accretion of land is of two kinds: By alluvion, i. e.; by the washing up of sand or soil, so as to More...
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