Word "file/filed"

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....pers, indorsing the title on each paper (Webster Dictionary); to leave paper with an officer for action or preservation (Meridian National Bank v. Hoyst, etc. Co., 60 Am.St. Rep. 504).  Filed: Delivered to the proper officer and by him received to be kept on file. The derivation and meaning of the word, as defined in the dictionaries, carries with it the idea of permanent preservation;....

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....ncludes the original complaint and all pleadings and papers belonging thereto. . . File. v. To lay away and arrange in order, pleadings, motions, instruments and other papers for preservation and reference. To deposit in the custody or among the records of a court. To deliver an instrument or other paper to the proper officer or official for the purpose of being kept on file by him as a matter o....