Definition of Filacer. Meaning of Filacer. Synonyms of Filacer

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Definition of Filacer

Filacer
Filacer Fil"a*cer, n. [OE. filace a file, or thread, on which the records of the courts of justice were strung, F. filasse tow of flax or hemp, fr. L. filum thread.] (Eng. Law) A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process. [Obs.] --Burrill.

Meaning of Filacer from wikipedia

- Constable of Horsham in 1401 and his grandson, Thomas Elyot (1420–1467), a filacer (issuer of the Royal Writs), is buried at Wonersh church in Surrey, not...
- reportedly did not leave sons. Entering on a legal career, he became first a filacer, or issuer of writs, and later an attorney in the Court of King's Bench...
- Plunkett, was instead awarded the seat. In 1837, O'Dwyer was appointed as the filacer of the exchequer, serving until the office was abolished in 1845, and then...
- married 4 October 1608, to Edward Moody. Silvester, of the Inner Temple, filacer of Kent, Sus****, and Surrey, baptised 25 January 1589, died unmarried....