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Contra formam collationis

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Writ in English law

In English law, contra format collations was a writ to recover donations in a situation where a man had given perpetual alms to a religious house, hospital, school, or the like, and the governor or managers had alienated the lands, contrary to the intention of the donor.

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  1. "Contra Forma Collations" Legal Dictionaries of the Encyclopedia of Law Project
  2. "Contra Formam Collationis (or Feoffamenti)" Legal Dictionaries of the Encyclopedia of Law Project
  3. Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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