Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, who filed original writs, etc., and made out processes on them.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete, UK, law A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Eng. Law), obsolete A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he
filed the writs on which he made out process.
Etymologies
- Old English filace a file, or thread, on which the records of the courts of justice were strung, French filasse tow of flax or hemp, from Latin filum thread. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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