Decrees or judgments that are final decisions between the parties. … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

The verdict, the final determination of a case which is then documented in writing by the judge presiding over the case. … [Read more...]

In Roman law. An early form of mortgage, or pledge, in which both the title and possession of the property were passed to the creditor by a formal act of sale, (properly with the solemnities of the transaction known as mancipatto,) there being at the same time an express or implied agreement on the part of the creditor to reconvey the property by a similar act of sale provided … [Read more...]