Filare

In old -English practice. To file. Towns. PI. 67.

In Old English Practice. To file. Townsh. PI. 67. FILE (Lat Filum). A thread, string, or wire upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices are fastened or filed for the more safe-keeping and ready turning to the same. Spelman, GIos.s.; Cowell; Tomlin, Law Diet Papers put together and tied in bundles. A paper is said also to be filed when it is delivered to the proper officer, and by him received to be kept on file. 13 Viner, Abr. 211; 1 Littleton 113; 1 Hawk. PI. Cr. 7, 207. See where filed by a wife as agent; Reed v. Inhabitants of Acton, 120 Mass. 180. The origin. of the term indicates very clearly that the filing of a paper can only be effected by bringing it to the notice of the officer, who anciently put it upon the string or wire; Phillips v. Beene’s Adm’r, 38 Ala. 248. Filing a paper, in modern usage, consists- In placing It in the' custody of the proper official by the party charged with the duty, and the making of the proper Indorsement by the officer. Stone v. Crow, 2 S. Dak. 625, 61 N. W. 335. In the sense of a statute requiring the filing of a paper or document, it is filed when delivered to and received by the proper officer to be kept on file. The word carries with it the idea of permanent preservation of the thing so delivered and received; that it may become a part of the public record. It is not synonymous with deposited; People V. Peck, 67 Hun 560, 22 N. Y. Supp. 576. The “file’' In a cause includes original subpoenas and all papers belonging thereto. Jackson v. Mobley, 157 Ala. 408, 47 South. 690.

Fr. A file. Fnfilace; on file. Kelham, Philas occurs in Britton. Remue de philas; removed from the file. Britt. c. 48.