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noun
A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete
Topics: law
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History
From Old English filace (“a file or thread on which the records of the courts of justice were strung”), from French filasse (“tow of flax or hemp”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
