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Definition :

File, a thread, string, or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts or offices are fastened or filed, for the more sae keeping of, and ready reference to, the same; also, to deposit at an office.

A court's complete and official record of a case; a lawyer's complete record of a case. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 642.