Home › Words › F › filacerfilacerfilacer means A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.EtymologyFrom Old English filace (“a file or thread on which the records of the courts of justice were strung”), from French filasse (“tow of flax or hemp”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).nounA former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out processDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).