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Webster 1913 Edition
Filacer
Fil′a-cer
,Noun.
[OE.
filace
a file, or thread, on which the records of the courts of justice were strung, F. filasse
tow of flax or hemp, fr. L. filum
thread.] (Eng. Law)
A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; – so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.
[Obs.]
Burrill.
Webster 1828 Edition
Filacer
FIL'ACER
,Noun.
An officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, so called from filing the writs on which he makes process. There are fourteen of them in their several divisions and counties. They make out all original processes, real, personal and mixed.