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ACCOUNT, practice (law) and Knox, John (sh)


ACCOUNT, practice (law)


ACCOUNT, practice. A statement of the receipts and payments of an executor,administrator, or Other trustee, of the estate confided to him.administrator, or Other trustee, of the estate confided to him. 2. Every one who administers the affairs of another is required at the 2. Every one who administers the affairs of another is required at theend of his administration to render an account of his Management of theend of his administration to render an account of his Management of thesame. Trustees of every description can, in General, be compelled by courtssame. Trustees of every description can, in General, be compelled by courtsof chancery to settle accounts, or otherwise fully execute their trusts.of chancery to settle accounts, or otherwise fully execute their trusts.Where there are no courts of chancery, the courts of common law are usuallyWhere there are no courts of chancery, the courts of common law are usuallyinvested with power for the same purposes by acts of legislation. When ainvested with power for the same purposes by acts of legislation. When aparty has had the property of another as his agent, he may be compelled atparty has had the property of another as his agent, he may be compelled atcommon law to account by an action of account render.common law to account by an action of account render. 3. An account is also the statement of two merchants or others who have 3. An account is also the statement of two merchants or others who havedealt together, showing the debits and credits between them.dealt together, showing the debits and credits between them.

Knox, John (sh)




born งใ 1514, near Haddington, East Lothian, Scot.
died Nov. 24, 1472, Edinburgh

Scottish clergyman, leader of the Scottish Reformation and founder of Scottish Presbyterianism.

Probably trained for the priesthood at the University of St. Andrews, he was ordained in 1540. He joined a group of Protestants who fortified St. Andrews Castle, but they were captured by French Catholics and carried away into slavery in 1547. Released through English intervention in 1549, he spent four years preaching in England, where he influenced developments in the Church of England. With the accession of the Catholic Mary I, he fled to the Continent. He served as pastor at Frankfurt am Main and Geneva until his return to Scotland in 1559. In England, Elizabeth I made common cause with the Scottish Presbyterians, lest the French gain control of Scotland to support its Catholic monarch, Mary, Queen of Scots. Knox survived conflicts with Mary and spent the rest of his life in setting up the Presbyterian church.


John Knox, engraving from Icones, by T. Beza, 1580.

Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.