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Meaning of Modo et forma
(Lat. in manner and form). In pleading. Technical words used to put in issue such concomitants of the principal matters as time, place, etc., where these circumstances were material. Their use when these circumstances were immaterial was purely formal. The words were translated literally, when pleadings began to be made in English, by “in manner and form.” See Lawes, PI. 120; Gould, PI. c. 6, § 22; Steph. PL 213; Dane, Abr. Index; Viner, Abr. “Modo et forma.”
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Concept of “Modo et Forma”
Traditional meaning of modo et forma in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) In manner and form. Old words in a plea, not usually material, putting in issue concomitant matters such as time, place, etc.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Modo et Forma”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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