Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, who filed original writs, etc., and made out processes on them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, UK, law A former
officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, so called because hefiled thewrits on which he made outprocess .
Etymologies
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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.
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Examples
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Sporting Magazine 1812
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