CONTRA FORMAM COLLATIONIS

By SovConn | June 16, 2014

contra formam collationis (kon-tr<<schwa>> for-m<<schwa>>m k<<schwa>>-lay-shee-oh-nis). [Latin “against the form of a collation”] Hist. A writ to regain lands given to a religious society in exchange for perpetual alms. • The writ was usu. sought by an heir of the person who had given the land away. [Blacks Law 8th]

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