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practice. The model of an instrument or legal-proceeding, containing the substance and the principal terms, to be used in accordance with the laws; or, it is the act of pursuing, in legal proceedings, and in the construction of legal instruments, the order required by law. Form is usually put in contradistinction to substance. For example, by the operation of the statute of 27 … [Read more...] about FORM

In old English law. Banished. … [Read more...] about FORISBANITUS

Income tax form for taxpayers. … [Read more...] about FORM 1040

Lat. To forfeit; to lose an estate or other property on account of some criminal or illegal act. To confiscate. To act beyond the law, i.e., to transgress or infringe the law; to commit an offense or wrong: to do any act against or beyond thet law. See Co. Litt. 59a; Du Cange; Spelman. Forisfacere, 1. c, extra legem con consuetudinem facere. Co. Litt. 59. Forisfacere, i. e, to … [Read more...] about FORISFACERE

A standard set of questions that a party may use when it questions an opposing party or witnesses in a lawsuit. Typically they cover the most common issues of a certain type of case, e.g. landlord tenant, auto accident, etc. … [Read more...] about FORM INTERROGATORIES