† formedonn.
/ˈfɔːmɪdɒn/ Law.
A writ of right formerly used for claiming entailed property (see quot. 1628).
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > writs to claim or recover property
writ of aiela1325
replevin1465
action of detinue1467
formedon1495
writ of mesnec1523
livery?1530
post-disseisin1532
cape1588
writ of besaile1598
escheat1607
praecipe quod reddat1607
recaption1607
monstrance of right1651
writ of tresayle1772
1485 Act 1 Hen. VII c. 1 Subjects having cause of Action by Formedon in the descender, or else in the remainder.]
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 60 §1 The seid Hugh..[may] pursue for the recovere of the same londes by fourme doon or otherwise.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 13 The kynges writ, of formdowne.
1598 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions (1675) 250 Formedon in Discender lyeth where the Donee in Tail or free Marriage aliens that Land so given.]
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 326 b There be three kinde of Writs of Formedon, viz. The first in the Discender to be brought by the issue in taile, which claime by discent Per formam doni. The second is in the Reuerter, which lieth for him in the reuersion or his heires or Assignes after the state taile be spent. The third is [in] the Remainder, which the Law giueth to him in the remainder, his Heires or Assignes after the determination of the estate taile.
a1653 R. Filmer Patriarcha (1884) iii. §17. 71 Who brought a formedon against a poor man.
1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent vi. 106 The Writ of Formedon brought by Daughters.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 192 The heir in tail shall have this writ of formedon in the descender, to recover these lands, so given in tail, against him who is then the actual tenant of the freehold.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. iv. 159 This was called the writ of ‘formedon (forma doni) in the descender’.)
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