Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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ACCOUNTING

«jourt, and to place the same in the Bank of England for security. 12 Geo. I. c. 32; 1 Geo.IV.c.35; 15 & 16 Viet. c. 87, §§ 18-22, 89. See Daniell, Ch. Pr. (4th Ed.) 1607 et seq. The office, however, has been abolished by 35 & 36 Viet. c. 44, and the duties trans ferred to her majesty's paymaster general. ACCOUNTING. The making up and rendition of an account, either voluntarily or by order of a court. ACCOUPLE. To unite; to marry. Ne unques decouple, never married. ACCBEDIT. In international law. (1) To receive as an envoy in his public charac ter, and give him credit and rank according ly. Burke. (2) To send with credentials as an envoy. Webst. Diet. ACCBEDULITABE. L. Lat. In old records. To purge an offense by oath. Blount; Whishaw. ACCBESCEBE. In the civil and old En glish law. To grow to; to pass to, and be come united with, as soil to land per alluvio nem. Dig. 41, 1, 30, pr. ACCBETION. The act of growing to a thing; usually applied to the gradual and imperceptible accumulation of land by nat ural causes, as out of the sea or a river. Ac cretion of land is of two kinds: By alluvion, i. e., by the washing up of sand or soil, so as to form firm ground; or by dereliction, as when the sea shrinks below the usual water mark. The increase of real estate by the addition of portions of soil, by gradual deposition through the operation of natural causes, to that already in possession of the owner. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 451. ACCBOACH. To encroach; to exercise power without due authority. To attempt to exercise royal power. 4 Bl. Comm. 76. A knight who forcibly assaulted and detained one of the king's subjects till he paid him a sum of money was held to have committed treason, on the ground of accroach - ment. 1 Hale, P. C. 80. ACCBOCHEB. Fr. In French law. To delay; retard; put off. Accrocherunprodes, to stay the proceedings in a suit. ACCBUE. To grow to; to be added to; to attach itself to; as a subordinate or acces sory claim or demand arises out of, and is joined to, its principal; thus, costs accrue to

a judgment, and interest to the principal debt. The term is also used of independent or original demands, and then means to arise, to happen, to come into force or existence; as in the phrase, "The right of action did not accrue within six years." ACCBUEB, CLAUSE OF. An express clause, frequently occurring in the case of gifts by deed or will to persons as tenants in common, providing that upon the death of one or more of the beneficiaries his or their shares shall go to the survivor or survivors. Brown. The share of the decedent is then said to accrue tothe others. ACCRUING. Inchoate; in process of maturing. That which will or may, at a future time, ripen into a vested right, an available demand, or an existing cause of action. 13 Ohio St. 382. ACCBUING COSTS. Costs and ex penses incurred after judgment. ACCUMULATED SURPLUS. In stat utes relative to the taxation of corporations, this term refers to the fund which the com pany has in excess of its capital and liabili ties. 84 N. J. Law, 493; 35 N. J. Law, 577. ACCUMULATIONS. When an executor or other trustee masses the rents, dividends, and other income which he receives, treats it as a capital, invests it, makes a new capita] of the income derived therefrom, invests that, and so on, he is said to accumulate the fund, and the capital and accrued income thus pro cured constitute accumulation*. ACCUMULATIVE. That which accu mulates, or is heaped up; additional. Said of several things heaped together, or of one thing added to another. ACCUMULATIVE JUDGMENT. Where a person has already been convicted and sentenced, and a second or additional judgment is passed against him, the execu tion of which is postponed until the comple tion of the first sentence, such second judg ment is said to be accumulative* ACCUMULATIVE LEGACY. A sec ond, double, or additional legacy; a legacy given in addition to another given by the same instrument, or by another instrument. Accusare nemo se debet, nisi ooram Deo. No one is boundtoaccuse himself, ex cept before God. See Hardres, 139.

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