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Contra formam collationis

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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.[1][2][3]

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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 domainChambers, 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)