Folio
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A leaf
The references to the writings of the older law-authors are usually made by citing the folio, as it was the ancient custom to number the folio Instead of the page, as is done in modem books. A certain number of words specified by statute as a lo Uo. Wharton. Originating, undoubtedly, in some estimate of the number of words which a folio ought to contain. In Michigan it has been held that a legal folio is one hundred words; Thornton v. Village of Sturgis, 38 Mich. 639; and that number is generally made a fo Uo by statute; U.