Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

contributione facienda

[Latin "writ for making contribution"] Hist. A writ to compel a tenant in common to contribute to a fellow tenant who has paid more than the tenant's share of a sum for which all the tenants are liable. "Contributione facienda is a writ that lieth in case where more are bound to one thing, & one is put to the whole burden .... If tenents in comon or joynt, hold a mill (pro indiuiso) & equally take the profits therof, the mill falling to decay, & one or more of them refusing to contribute toward the reparation therof, the rest shall have this writ ...." John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607).