Fyle
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or FFYLE (Scotch). In old Scotch practice. To declare or find guilty; literally, to defile; to make or declare foul; as clenge was to acquit, literally to clean or cleanse. "Swa that he quha, of his conscience, can nocht clenge, he of neccessitie mon fyle."
1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p.
314. "The assjise in ane voce ffylis the said R. W." 2 Pitc. Crim. Tr. 73,