- FILE: To place legal documents in the official custody of the clerk of the court to enter into the files or records of the case. A legal document is deemed filed when date and time stamped by the clerk.
- FINDING: Formal conclusion by a judge on issues of fact or a conclusion by a jury regarding fact.
- FRAUD: Intentional deception to deprive another person of property or to injure that person in some other way through misrepresentation.