son, 1 Ga. 275; Gayle v. Johnston, 72 Ala. 254, 47 Am. Rep. 405; mant v. Batsell, 59 Tex. 368; rvis v. Kroner, 18 Or. 414, 23 Pac, 260.—Public accounts. The accounts kept by officers of the nation. state. or kingdom, of the receipt and expenditure of the revenues of the government. ACCOUNT, or ACCOUNT RENDER. In practice. “Account,” sometimes called “account render,” was a form of action at common law against a person who by reason of some fiduciary relation (as guardian, bailiff, receiver, etc.) was bound to render an account to another, but refused to do so. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 116; Co. Litt. 172; Griffith v. Willing, 3 Bin. (Pa.) 317; Travers v. Dyer, 24 Fed. Cas. 142; Stevens v. Coburn, 71 Vt. 261, 44 Atl. 354; Portsmouth v. Don aldson, 32 Pa. 202, 72 Am. Dec. 782. In England, this action early fell into disuse; and as it is one of the most dilatory and expensive actions known to the law, and the par ties are held to the ancient rules of pleading, and no discovery can be obtained, it never was adopted to any great extent in the United States. But in some states this action was employed, chiefly because there were no chancery courts in which a bill for an accounting would lie. The action is peculiar in the fact that two judgments are rendered, a preliminary judgment that the defendant do account with the laintiff (quod computect) and a final judgment quod recuperet) after the accounting for the balance found due. Field vy. Brown, 146 Ind. rt oe E. 464; Travers v. Dyer, 24 Fed. as. . ae