Lat. 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 a cancellis, a secretis, a libellis, were also anciently the titles of a chancellor, (cancellarius,) in the early history of that office. Spelman, “Cancellarius.”

A conclusion s to the use of a thing from its abuse is invalid. Broom, Max. 17.

Abridgment