Forma
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Form; the preseribed form of judicial proceedings. Forma et figura judieii, the form and shape of judgment or judicial action.
3 BI. Comm. 271.
Forma dat esse
Form gives being. Called “the old physical maxim.” Lord Henley, Ch., 2 Eden, 99, Forma legalis forma essentialis, Legal form is essential form.
10 Coke, 100.
Forma non observata, infertur adnullatio actus. Where form is not observed, a nullity of the act is inferred.
12 Coke, 7.
Where the law prescribes a form, the non-observance of it is fatal to the proceeding, and