Contra Formam Statuti
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. (Against the form of the statute.) In old pleading. A phrase used at the conclusion of indictments laid on an offence created by statute, and of declarations on penal statutes, and held to be essential.
1 Ld. Raym, 160, 342, 343. 4 SUph. Com, 877.
Contra formam statuti in tali ccuu editi et provisi; against the form of the statute in such case made and provided.
Towns, PI, l'>4.
The use of the corresponding English phrase is still generally held to be essential, though the strictness of the rule on this point has been sometimes relaxed.
1 Chitt, PI, 372, 373. 4 Stepk. Com, ub. sup, 1 Penn. St. R. 164. 1 Gilman's (111.) R, 333, 340. Lewis U, S. Crim, Law, 644—686.
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