Legal Definition and Related Resources of Actus
Meaning of Actus
(Lat. agere, to do; actus, done). In Civil Law. A thing done. See “Actum.” In Roman Law. A servitude which carried the right of driving animals and vehicles across the lands of another. It included also the iter, or right of passing across on foot or on horseback. In English Law. An act of parliament. 8 Coke, 40. A foot and horse way. Co. Litt. 56a.
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Concept of “Actus”
Traditional meaning of actus in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) An action; act. Actus curiae neminem gravabit: an act of the court shall prejudice no one. Actus Dei vel legis nemini facit injuriam: an act of God or an act of the. law injures no one. Actus legis nemini est damnosus: an act of the law is prejudicial to no one; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 123. Actus me invito factus non est meus actus: an act done by me against my will is not my act. Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea: an act makes no one guilty unless the intention be guilty; see ^ Bl. Com. 4, 21; Robinson’s Elementary Law Rev. ed.; § 463.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Actus”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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Meaning of Actus
In this law dictionary, the legal term actus is a kind of the Legal History, Roman law class.
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