Lat. A son; a child.
A distinction was sometimes made, in the civil law, between “filii” and “liberi;” the latter word including grandchildren, (nepotes,) the former not. Inst. 1, 14, 5. But, according to Paulus and Julianus, they were of equally extensive import. Dig. 50, 10, 84; Id. 50, 16, 201. Filins familias. In the civil law. The son of a family; an unemancipated son. Inst. 2, 12, nr.; Id. 4, 5, 2; Story, Confl. Laws,