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FOLIO (properly the ablative See also: term in
bibliography and printing, with reference either to the See also: size of paper employed, or of the See also: book, or to the pagination
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In the phrase " in folio " it means a See also: sheet of paper folded once, and thus a book bound up in sheets thus folded is a book of the largest size and is known as a " folio " (see BIBLIOGRAPHY)
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Similarly, " folio " is one of the sizes of paper adapted to be thus folded (see PAPER)
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In book-keeping the word is used for a page in a ledger on which the See also: credit and debtor account is written; in See also: law-writing, for a fixed number of words in a legal document, used for measurement of the length and for the addition of See also: costs
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In See also: Great Britain, a "folio "is taken to contain 72 words, except in See also: parliamentary and See also: chancery documents, when the number is 9o
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