filacer, filazer
(ˈfɪləsə(r), -zə(r))
Forms: α. 6 felyssour, filliser, 7–8 filizer, filizar, 9 fyliser, 7– filacer, -azer. β. 7–8 philaser, -azer, -iser, -izer.
[f. filace + -er2.]
A former officer of the superior courts at Westminster, who filed original writs, etc. and issued processes thereon. Also a corresponding officer of the Irish superior courts.
| [1432 Act 10 Hen. VI, c. 4 Que null Filicer, Exigenter, ne autre officer desore enavaunt fera tiel entree en ascun seute.] 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 4 §1 The Felyssour or exigenter in whose offyce suche sute is taken. 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 1 §5 All Attornies, Protonotaries and Philizers. 1613 Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 23 The profits of the office of a Filizer, &c. cannot be put in execution. 1667 Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 105 John Hickmote of Windsore in Berks, esq. a philiser. 1708 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. (1743) 266 A List of the Philazers of the Court of Common Pleas, with the counties belonging to each respective Philazer. 1818 Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) III. 88 A petition..to..forbid filazers..from practising. 1827 Bingham Reports IV. 63 A præcipe into Cambridgeshire had been filed with the filacer of the County of Cambridge. 1837 Act 7 Will. IV. & 1 Vict. c. 30, Sched. A, Offices abolished by this Act..On the Plea Side of the Court of Queen's Bench: The Office of..Filacer..In the Court of Common Pleas: The Office of..Filacers for the several Counties, Cities, and Towns in England and Wales. 1883 General Advertiser 2 June, William Woodlock, Esq...Solicitor, formerly Filazer of the Court of Equity. |