In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FILACER
Etymology
Noun
filacer (plural filacers)
(Britain, legal, obsolete) A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.
Anagrams
• life car, lifecar
Source: Wiktionary
Fil"a*cer, n. Etym: [OE. filace a file, or thread, on which the records of the courts of justice were strung, F. filasse tow of flax or hemp, fr. L. filum thread.] (Eng. Law)
Definition: A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process. [Obs.] Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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