Folio

[from Lat. folium, a leaf.] A leaf of a book or manuscript. In old practice. A leaf or sheet of parchment or paper, containing a certain number of words. In modern practice. A certain number of words, without reference to the paper or parchment on which they are written. In English practice, & folio in law proceedings is seventj-two words; in chancery, ninety words. Wharton^s Lex. In New- York, a folio was formerly seventy-two words.

2 Eev. Laws of ISIS, 15 et seq.

It is now one hundred words, counting every figure, necessarily used, as a word.

2 JRev. St. [660], 542, § 4. Id. [753, § 16], 631, § 17.

The term folio, in this last sense, seems to have originated in the practice of writing a certain number oi words on a sheets which, becoming invariable, gave the name of the sheet or leaf (folio,) to the numher of words written upon it.

3 BL Com. 323.

Hence the expression in the New- York act first quoted above, — *'each sheet containing seventy 'two words.**