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Definition :

Form. The structure of a document or its contents apart from the substance. See Conveyancing Forms and Precedents; Chitty's Forms; Bullen and Leake's Prec. Of Pleading.

The outer shape or structure of something, an dis-tinguished from its substance or matter. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 662.

Statutory Forms (see, e.g., the forms of mortgage in the Third Schedule to the Law of Property Act, 1925), are usually permissive, but a bill of sale (see that title) is void unless made 'in accordance with' the form in the schedule to the Bills of Sale Act, 1882; see Thomas v. Kelly, (1888) 13 Ap. Cas. 506.

Intended to connote that the body of the company or its shape did not come up in consequence of transfer of building, machinery or plant used previously for business purpose, Bajaj Temp Ltd. v. I.T. Commr. Bombay, AIR 1992 SC 1622.