Filins
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
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In old English law
A son; a child. Filius est nomen iiatarse, sed liseres nomen juris: son is a name of nature, but heir is a name of law. Filius mnlieratus: v. Mulier. Filius nu Uius: the child of nobody; a bastard. Filins popnli: a son of the people. In the civil law. Filins familias: the son of a family, — an unemancipated son. Filium eum dellnimus, qui ex Tiro et uxore ejus nascitnr: we define him to be a son, who is born of a man and his wife.