What is ACTING OFFICER? Definition of ACTING OFFICER in Black's Law Dictionary
The phrase "acting officer" is used to designate, not an appointed incumbent, but merely a locum tenens, who is performing the duties of an office to which he himself does not claim title. State ex rel. Gossett v. O'Grady, 137 Neb. 824, 291 N.W. 497, 501; State Bank of Williams v. Gish, 167 Iowa, 526, 149 N.W. 600, 601.
"Acting Supervising Architect." Fraser v. United States, 16 Ct.C1. 514. An acting executor is one who assumes to act as executor for a decedent, not being the executor legally appointed or the executor in fact. Morse v. Allen, 99 Mich. 303, 58 N.W. 327.
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