Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

contra formam feoffmenti

[Latin "contrary to the form of- feoffment"] Hist. A writ that commanded a 1downer to stop demanding from a tenant tre services than those included in the ten:trit's deed to the land. - Also spelled contra pwmam feoffamenti."Contra formam feoffamenti is a writ that lies where a man before the statute of quia emptores terrarum, made 18 Ed. 1, infeoffed another by deed to do certain service; if the feoffor or his heirs distrain him to do other service than is comprised in the deed, then the tenant shall have this writ, commanding him not to distrain him to do other service than is comprised in the deed." Termes de la Ley 116 (1st Am. ed. 1812).