Contra Formam Collationis
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Contra formam collationis, a writ that issued where lands given in perpetual alms to any late houses of religion, as to an abbot and convent, or to the warden or master of any hospital and his convent, to find certain poor men with necessaries, and do divine service, etc., were alienated, to the disherison of the house and church. By means of this writ the donor or his heirs could recover the lands, Reg. Brev. 238; Fitz. N.B. 210.
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