Formula

Lat. [dimin. of forma, a form.] In practice. A form of words used in judicial proceedings, generally written, always consisting of the same parts, and expressed in precisely the same language, except where variation is necessary to accommodate it to a particular case. The writs, pleadings and records of the common law system of practice furnish the best examples of written formulae. In the civil law. An action. Calv. Lex.