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Filius




Filius

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

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Son
Kindred. An immediate male descendant. In its technical meaning in devises, this is a word of purchase, but the testator may make it a word of descent. Sometimes it is extended to more remote descendants.

Immediate
That which is produced directly by the act to which it is ascribed, without the intervention or agency of any distinct intermediate cause.

Male
Of the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young; the sex opposed to the female.

Descendant
Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants. Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents. The law also distinguishes between collateral descendants and lineal descendants.

Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.

Tables
A synopsis in which many particulars are brought together in a general view; as genealogical tables, which are composed of the names of persons



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

Filing a lawsuit
Ways and procedures to file an individual lawsuit or a class action lawsuit.

Filing fee
The fee required for filing various documents.

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

Filius nullius
The child of nobody.

Filius populi
The son of the people; a bastard.



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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
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.

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

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

Filius nullius
The child of nobody.

Filius populi
The son of the people; a bastard.

Filley
A mare not more than one year old.

Filum
The middle; the thread of anything; as filum aqua.

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