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filacer

filacer 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.

Noun

filacer (plural filacers)

  1. (UK, obsolete) 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
    • When actions are brought in the Courts of King's Bench or Common Pleas, founded upon original writs issuing out of the Courts of Chancery (which writs, as stated in the Report of the 9th of April 1816, it is the duty of the Cursitors to make out) it has been the practice in certain cases for the...1817 December 20, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, “Second Report of the Commissioners for Examining into the Duties, Salaries and Emoluments, of the Officers, Clerks and Ministers, of the...

Forms of filacer

pluralfilacers

Origin of filacer

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”).

Questions about filacer

What does filacer mean?
Filacer means 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.
What part of speech is filacer?
Filacer is a noun.
What is the plural of filacer?
The plural of filacer is filacers.

Words near filacer in the dictionary

  1. filabeg
  2. filabegs
  3. filable
  4. filabuster
  5. filaceous
  6. filacer
  7. filacers
  8. Filadelfia
  9. filafel
  10. filaggrin
  11. filaggrins

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