Juridical Dictionary

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File

To personally deliver a document to a clerk of a court so that the document can be included in the official records of a case.

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Clerk
1) Commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. 2) Ecclesiastical law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk. 3) A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the transactions of the tribunal or body to which he belongs. Some clerks, however, have little or no writing to do in their offices, as, the clerk of the market, whose duties are confined chiefly to superintending the markets.

Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.

Official
civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official.

Case
1) Practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 2) An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned



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Fifteenth
English law. The name of a tax levied by authority of parliament for the use of the king, which consisted of one-fifteenth part of the goods of those who are subject to it.

Fifth amendment
Among other rights, the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that a person cannot be compelled to present self-incriminating testimony in a criminal proceeding.

Figures
Numerals. It is considered better to date formal instruments by writing the day and the year in words; and to write in words in the body of a bill, note, or receipt the sum for which it is given.

Filacer
Filacer, filazier or filzer. English law. An officer of the court of common pleas, so called because he files those writs on which he makes out process. FILE, practice. A thread, string, or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices are fastened or filed. for the more safe keeping and ready turning to the same. The papers put together in order, and tied in bundles, are also called a file.

Filazier
"Filazier,filacer or filzer.English law. An officer of the court of common pleas, so called because he files those writs on which he makes out process. FILE, practice. A thread, string, or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices are fastened or filed. for the more safe keeping and ready turning to the same. The papers put together in order, and tied in bundles, are also called a file.

File

Files control office
An U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servicesfield office--either a district (including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servicesoverseas offices) or a suboffice of that district--where alien case files are maintained and controlled.

Filiation
The relation or tie between a child and its parent, especially its father; also, ascertainment of paternity, affiliation.

Filing fee
The fee required for filing various documents.

Filius
The son, the immediate male descendant. This term is used in making genealogical tables.

Filius mulieratus
The eldest legitimate son of parents, who, before their marriage, had illegitimate children.

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