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Filacer

Filacer \Fil"a*cer\, n. [OE. filace a file, or thread, on which the records of the courts of justice were strung, F. filasse tow of flax or hemp, fr. L. filum thread.] (Eng. Law) A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process. [Obs.]
--Burrill.

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filacer

n. (context obsolete UK legal English) A former officer in the (w: English Court of Common Pleas), so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.