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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In old practice. At length. PER FORMAM DONI (Lat, by the form of the gift.) According to the line of descent prescribed in the conveyance of the ancestor or donor of estate tail.

2 Bl. Comm. 113*; 3 Har. & J. (Md.) 323; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 74, 81.

PER FRAUDEM (Lat.) A replication to a plea where something has been pleaded which would be a discharge if it had been honestly pleaded that such a thing has been obtained by fraud; for example, where, on debt on a statute, the defendant pleads a prior action depending, if such action has been commenced by fraud, the plaintiff may reply per fraudem.

2 Chit. PI. *675.