Latin meaning Filiation cannot be proved. … [Read more...]

Lat. In old practice. A file; 4. e., a thread or wire on which papers were strung, that being the ancient method of filing. Filum aquae. A thread of water; a line of water; the middle line of a stream/of water, supposed to divide it into two equal parts, and constituting in many cases the boundary between the riparian proprietors on each side. Ingraham v. Wilkinson, 4 Pick. … [Read more...]

First in First Out. An accounting term concerning how to track costs of inventory which assumes that the first goods into storage are the first ones sold and removed from inventory. … [Read more...]

The relation of a child to its parent; correlative to "paternity." o The judicial assignment of an illegitimate child to a designated man as its father. In the civil law. The descent of son or daughter, with regard to his or her father, mother, and their ancestors. … [Read more...]

The thread or middle of a water course. 2. It is a general rule, that in grants of lands bounded on rivers and streams above tide water, unless otherwise expressed, the grant extends usque ad filum aquae, and that not only the banks, but the bed of the river, and the islands therein, together with exclusive right of fishing, pass to the grantee. … [Read more...]