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Contra Formam Doni

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Against the form of the grant. See For srepon. CONTRA FORMAM FEREOFFAMEN- TI, Inold English law. A writ that lay for the heir of a tenant, enfeoffed of certain lands or tenements, by charter of feoffment from a lord to make certain services and suits to his court, who was afterwards distrained for more services than were mentioned in the charter.

Reg. Orig. 176; Old Nat. Brev. 162.