Folio
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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 modern books. A certain number of words specified by statute as a folio. Wharton. Originating, undoubtedly, in some estimate of the number of words which a folio ought to contain.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
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.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
2. A large size of book, the page being obtained by folding the sheet of paper once only in the binding. Many of the ancient lawbooks are folios.
3. In computing the length of written legal documents, the term "folio" denotes a contain number of words, fixed by statute in seme states at one hundred. The term "folio," when used as a measure for computing fees or compensation, or in any legal proceedings, means one hundred words, counting every figure necessarily used as a word; and any portion of a folio, when in the whole draft or figure there is not a complete folio, and when there is any excess over the last folio, shall be computed as a folio. Gen. St. Minn. 1878, c. 4, § 1, par.
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A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
A leaf of a book or manuscript; a leaf or sheet-of parchment or paper, containing a certain number of words; a certain number of words, without reference to the paper or parchment on which they are written, in America usually one hundred.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
A leaf. A page containing seventy-two, ninety ■words; in America, usually one hundred.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[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.**