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Home Dictionary Name: pro formapro forma
pro forma [Latin, for the sake of form] 1 : made or carried out in a perfunctory manner or as a formality 2 : provided or made in advance to describe items or projections [a pro forma invoice] ...
Pro forma defendant
A pro forma defendant is a defendant named as a matter of formality, who typically has no direct responsibility for the harm alleged, but shares an interest with other defendants, such as being a co-owner of property or successor in interest. For example, a co-owner named on a deed or an heir who inherits property may be named as a pro forma defendant...
in forma pauperis
in forma pauperis [Medieval Latin, in the form of a pauper] : as a poor person : relieved of the fees and costs of a legal action because of inability to pay [allowed to file an appeal in forma pauperis] [in forma pauperis status] ...
Forma legalis forma essentialis
Forma legalis forma essentialis, [Lat.], legal form is an essential form....
In forma pauperis
In forma pauperis (in the character of a pauper). Every poor person, having cause of action, was entitled by 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, which is in affirmance of the Common Law, to have writs according to the nature of the case, without paying the fees thereon, and the judges might assign him counsel and solicitor, who acted gratis. This discretionary indulgence was confined to plaintiffs at Common Law, but was extended by Courts of (English) Equity to defendants.The statute 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, is repealed by the Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1883, but its provisions and those of the Chancery Orders and Common Law Rules (which gave effect to it in somewhat different terms) are thrown into one code by (English) R.S.C., Ord. XVI., rr. 22-31 G., by which a person may be admitted to sue or defend as a poor person on proof that he has a reasonable cause of action or defence and that his means do not exceed 50l. his clothes, household goods, tools of trade, and the subject-matter of the...
Speed money
Speed money, Speed money is the key to getting lawful things done in good time and 'operation signature', be it on a gate pass or a pro forma, can delay the movement of goods, the economics whereof induces investment in bribery, Som Parkash v. State of Delhi, AIR 1974 SC 989 (993): 1974 SCC (Cri) 215. [Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, s. 5(1)(a)]...
Forma pauperis, suing in
Forma pauperis, suing in. see IN FORMA PAPUPERIS....
Modo et forma
Modo et forma (in manner and form), a phrase formerly used in pleading. It was the nature of a traverse to deny the matter of fact in the adverse pleading in the manner and form in which it was alleged, and, therefore, to put the opposite party to prove it to be true in manner and form as well as in general effect. The plea of non est factum, and the replication de injuria (now abolished), were the only negative traverses not pleaded modo et forma. These words were in no case strictly essential, so as to render their omission a cause of demurrer. See now PLEADING....
Forma non observata infertur adnullatio actus
Forma non observata infertur adnullatio actus, [Lat.], Form not being observed, a nullity of the act is inferred....
Jus jurandi forma verbis differt, re convenit; hunc enim sensum habere debet, ut Deus invocetur
Jus jurandi forma verbis differt, re convenit; hunc enim sensum habere debet, ut Deus invocetur. Grotius, 1. 2, c. xiii. s. 10.-(The form of taking an oath differs in language, agrees in meaning; for it ought to have this sense, that the Deity is invoked.) See OATH...
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