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Meaning of Filius
(Lat.) A son; a child. As distinguished from heir, filius is a term of nature, haeres a term of law. 1 Powell, Dev. 311. In the civil law the term was used to denote a child generally. Calv. Lex. ; Vicat. Its use in the phrase nullius filius would seem to indicate a use in the sense of legitimate son, a bastard being the legitimate son of nobody; though the word is usually rendered a son, whether legitimate or illegitimate. Vicat. Filium eum definimus qui ex viro et uxore ejus nascitur, we define him to be a son who is born of a man and his wife. Dig. 1. 6. 6. Praesumitur quis esse filius eo quod nascitur ex uxore, one is presumed to be another’s child because he is bom of his wife. Bracton, fols. 6, 88. An alien may have a son, but no alien can have an heir. Id. See “Haeres.” A distinction was sometimes made, in the civil law, between filii and liberi; the latter word including grandchildren (nepotes) , the former not. Inst. 1. 14. 5. But according to Paulus and Julianus, they were of equally extensive import. Dig. 50. 16. 84; Id. 50. 16. 201.
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Filius in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
Latin. A child; a son.
Note: This legal definition of Filius in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
Concept of “Filius”
Traditional meaning of filius in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A son. Filius est nomen naturae, sed haeres est nomen juris: son is the name of nature, but heir is the name in law. Filius familias, I.; a son under the control of his father. Filius mulieratus: a mulier (see this last concept in this legal reference); see also 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 248. Filius nullius (the child of nobody): a bastard; so, filius populi, a son of the people; see 1st Book (“The Rights of Persons”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 459.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Filius”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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