Forma

Form; the prescribed or established form or method of legal proceedings; applied to obsolete actions “which are frequently mere establishments, Forma et flgura judicii," the form and shape of judicial action. 3 Bla. Com. 271.

Lat. Form; the prescribed form of judicial proceedings.

— Forma et flgnra judicii. The form and shape of judgment or judicial aotion. 3 Bl. Comm. 271.

— Forma pauperis. See In Forma Pauperis.

I. Form; the prescribed form of judicial proceedings; a form prescribed by statute. Forma dat esse: form gives being. Forma et flgura jndicii: the form and shape of judgment or judicial action. Forma legalis forma essentialis: legal form is essential form. Forma non observato, infertnr adnnllatio actus: where form is not observed, a nullity of the act is inferred. Forma pauperis: v. In forma pauperis.

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

Form; formality; character. Occurs in the phrases in forma pauperis, and pro forma, qq. v. Formaliter. In form; formally. FORMEDOM". A writ which lay for a person who, being interested in an estatetail, was liable f o be defeated of his right by a discontinuance of the estate. He claimed per formam doni. It was in the remainder, reverter, or descender. Abolished by 3 and 4Wm. rv (1834), 0.37. » > St. Louis, &c. E. Co. V. Chenault, 36 Kan. 65 (1886); Losch V. Pickett, ib. 232 (1887); Kansas, &c. E. Co. v. Bice, ib. 599 (1887): Civ. Code, 1 10. » New Orleans, &c. E. Co. v. Hurst, 36 Miss. 667 (1859); eulf, &c. E. Co. V. Levy, 59 Tex. 548 (1883). " United States v. Smith, 2 Mas. 160 (1820), Story, J.

Lat. [L. Fr. forme, fourmeJ] Form; the prescribed form of judicial proceedings. Forma et figwra jttdicii; the form and shape of judgment or judicial action. 3 Bl. Com, 271. A form prescribed by statute. According to Lord Coke, there are two manner of forms, forma verbalis, (verbal form) and forma legalis, (legal form.) Forma verbalis stands upon the letters and syllables of the act; forma legalia stands upon the substance of the thing to be done, and upon the sense of the statute. 10 Co. 100 a. Forma IcgalU forma eascatialia* Legal form is essential form. 10 Co, 100. Forma aon obaerrata, infcrtar adanlla* tio aci Bs. Where form is not observed, a nullity of the act is inferred. 12 Co. 1, Where the law prescribes a form, the nonobservance of it is fatal to the proceeding, and the whole becomes a nullity. Best on Hvid. Introd. § 59.