Law. Obs. Also 5 filas, 6 fylas, 8 filaze. [a. AF. filaz, ad.med. L. filacium, either f. L. fīlum thread, FILE sb.2, or perh. shortened from late L. chartophylacium (ad. late Gr. χαρτοφυλάκιον) place for keeping papers.] = FILE sb.2 3 b.
[1292. Britton, II. xvii. § 12. Et si le bref soit perdu ou remué maliciousement de filaz, adounc cesse le poer la Justice.]
1434. Proc. & Ordin. Priv. Council Eng. (1835), IV. 269. A cedule annexed to þe articles þat remayne in þe filas in þoffice of þe prive seal.
a. 1483. Liber Niger, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 33. Other lettres and remembraunces be kept upon a filace.
1509–10. Act 1 Hen. VIII., c. 8. Yf the clerke of the petie bagge … wyll not receyve the same office or inquisicion and putt yt on the fylas to remayne of recorde.
1537. in State Pap. (1834), II. 501. Item, it were goode, that some place were assigneid to the Master of the Rolles, for the kepeing of the fylaceis and recordes of the Chauncery.
Hence † Filace v. trans., to place on a file, to file.
1537. in State Papers (1834), II. 499. Noo subpena be awardeid, before a bille of compleinte be exibytid, and filaceid with the Master of the Rolles clerke.
