What is ACTUAL? Definition of ACTUAL in Black's Law Dictionary
Real; substantial; existing presently in act, having a valid objective existence as opposed to that which is merely theoretical or possible. Ciaccio v. Hartman, 170 La. 949, 129 So. 540. Opposed to potential, possible, virtual, conceivable, theoretical, hypothetical, or nominal. American Ins. Co. of Newark, N. J., v. Seminole County Board of Education, 51 Ga.App. 808, 181 S.E. 783, 786. Something real, in opposition to constructive or speculative; something existing in act. Astor v. Merritt, 4 S.Ct. 413, 111 U.S. 202, 28 L. Ed. 401. Existing in act, fact, or reality. Guarisco v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co., 4 N.Y.S.2d 788, 792, 167 Misc. 875.
It is used as a legal term in contradistinction to virtual or constructive as of possession or occupation; Cleveland
v. Crawford, 7 Hun (N.Y.) 616; or an actual settler, which implies actual residence; ' McIntyre v. Sherwood, 82 Cal. 139, 22 Pac. 937. An actual seizure means nothing more than seizure, since there was no fiction of constructive seizure before the act; L.R. 6 Exch. 203.
Actually is opposed to seemingly, pretendedly, or feignedly, as actually engaged in farming means really, truly, in fact; In re Strawbridge & Mays, 39 Ala. 367; Ayer & Lord Tie Co. v. Commonwealth, 208 Ky. 606, 271 S.W. 693,
694.
As to actual "Bias," "Damages," "Delivery," "Fraud," "Mal ice, " "Notice," "Occupation," "Ouster," "Possession," "Residence," "Seisin," "Total Loss," see those titles.
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