By figures of speech is meant that manner of speaking or writing, which has for its object to give to our sentiments and, thoughts a greater force, more vivacity and agreeableness. 2. This subject belongs more particularly to grammar and rhetoric, but the law has its figures also. Sometimes fictions come in aid of language, when found insufficient by the law; language, in its … [Read more...] about FIGURES OF SPEECH
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FILIOLUS
In old records. A godson. Spelman. … [Read more...] about FILIOLUS
FINAL DECREES
Decrees or judgments that are final decisions between the parties. … [Read more...] about FINAL DECREES
FILACER
An officer of the superior courts at Westminster, whose duty it was to file the writs on which he made process. There were fourteen filacers, and it was their duty to make out all original process. Cowell; Blount The office was abolished in 1837. … [Read more...] about FILACER
FILIUS
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. … [Read more...] about FILIUS