Figures

Figures, the numerical characters by which numbers are expressed or written, as the ten digits, which are usually called the Arabic or Indian figures from their supposed origin. 6 Geo. 2, c. 14, allowed expressing numbers by figures in all writs, etc., pleadings, rules, orders, indictments, etc., in courts of justice, as had been commonly used, notwithstanding 4 Geo. 2, c. 26. Under the present system of pleading dates, sums and numbers must be expressed in figures (R.S.C., Ord. XIX., r. 4). See DATES.