Contra formam statuti, contrary to the form of the statute [in such case made and provided]. The usual conclusion of every indictment, etc., brought for an offence created by statute prior to the Indictments Act, 1915. The (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1851 (repealed by the Act of 1915), provided that no indictment be had for the insertion of the words 'against the form of the statute' instead of the words 'against the form of the statutes.' See Sch. I. of the (English) Indictments Act, 1915, for examples of indictments now in use.
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