The 119 days spent overseas have cost taxpayers millions of dollars. At the same point in their respective presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 116 days on 28 trips, Bill Clinton had spent 113 days on 27 trips and Ronald Reagan had spent 73 days on just 14 trips.
The methods for recording vary, but book and page systems or document numbering systems are common. Specific real estate documents, such as deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust and liens, are considered recordable. The clerks charge a small fee to record documents, and that fee usually is based on the number of pages. After a real estate deed is filed or recorded, the original is returned to the grantee.
A record of the court. A paper is said to be filed when it is delivered to the proper officer to be kept on file as a matter of record and reference. But in general the terms file and the files are used loosely to denote the official custody of the court or the place in the offices of a court where the records and papers are kept. The file in a case includes the original complaint and all pleadings and papers belonging thereto.