n. A thread, string, or wire upon which writs and other exhibits in courts andoffices are fastened or filed for the more safe-keeping and ready turning to the same.Spelman ; Cowell; Tomlins.

Brit. A name given to villeins in the laws of Hoel Dda. Barring. Obs. St. 302.

The relation of a child to its parent: correlative to “paternity.”The judicial assignment of an illegitimate child to a designated man as its father.In the civil law. The descent of son or

In old English law. A ferny or bracky ground; a place where fern grows. Co. Litt. 46; Sliep. Touch. 95.

Lat. A son ; a child.A distinction was sometimes made, in the civil law, between “filii” and “liberi;” thelatter word including grandchildren, (nepotcs,) the former not. Inst. 1, 14, 5. But,according to

To make full; to complete; to satisfy or fulfill; to possess and perform theduties of.The election of a person to an office constitutes the essence of his appointment; butthe office cannot be

A young mare; a female colt. An indictment charging the theft of a “Ally” isnot sustained by proof of the larceny of a “mare.” Lunsford v. State, 1 Tex. App. 448,28 Am.

Lat. In old practice. A file; i. e., a thread or wire on which papers werestrung, that being the ancient method of filing.An imaginary thread or line passing through the middle of

Fr. An end, or limit; a limitation, or period of limitation.

In French law. An exception or plea founded on law, which,without entering into the merits of the action, shows that the plaintiff has no right tobring it, either because the time during

Definitive; terminating; completed ; last. In Its use in jurisprudence, thisword is generally contrasted with “interlocutory.” Johnson v. New York, 48 Hun, 020, 1N. Y. Supp. 254; Garrison v. Dougherty, 18 S.

A final or conclusive agreement. In the process of “levying afine.” this was a final agreement entered by the litigating parties upon the record, bypermission of court, settling the title to the

The public wealth of a state or government, considered either statically(as the property or money which a state now owns) or dynamically, (as its income,revenue, or public resources.) Also the revenue or

A person employed in the economical management and application ofpublic money; one skilled in the management of financial affairs.

To discover; to determine; to ascertain and declare. To announce a conclusion,as the result of judicial investigation, ui>on a disputed fact or state of facts; as ajury are said to “find a

One who discovers and takes possession of another’s personal property,which was then lost. Kincaid v. Eaton, 98 Mass. 139. 93 Am. Dec. 142.A searcher employed to discover goods imported or exported without

A decision upon a question of fact reached as the result of a judicial examinationor investigation by a court, jury, referee, coroner, etc. Williams v. Giblin, 86Wis. 648. 57 N. W. 1111;

v. To impose a pecuniary punishment or mulct. To sentence a person convictedof an offense to pay a penalty in money. Goodman v. Durant B. & L. Ass’n, 71Miss. 310. 14 South.

An abolished writ for disannulling a line levied of lands in ancientdemesne to the prejudice of the lord. Reg. Orig. 15.

An obsolete writ to inhibit officers of courts to take fines for fair pleading.