brevia formata

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
BREVIA FORMATA, Eng law. The collection of writs found in the Registrum 
Brevium was so called. The author of Fleta says, these writs were formed 
upon their cases. They were different from the writs de cursu, which were 
approved by the council of the whole realm, and could not be changed without 
the will of the same. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 13, Sec. 2. See 17 S. & R. 194-5, 
and authorities there cited. 
    

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