FORMEDON, in law, (breve de forma donationis),
a writ that lies for a person who has a right to lands or
tenements, by virtue of any entail, arising from the sta-
tute of Wilm. 2 Ch. II.
This writ is of three kinds, viz. a descender, remain-
der, and reverter. Formedon in descender, lies where a
tenant in tail infeoffs a stranger, or is disseised and dies,
and the heir may bring this writ to recover the lands.
Formedon in remainder, lies where a man gives lands,
&c. to a person in tail, and, for default of issue of
his body, the remainder to another in tail: here if the
tenant in tail die without issue, and a stranger abates
and enters into the land, he in remainder shall have
this writ. Formedon in reverter, lies where lands are
entailed on certain persons and their issue, with re-
mainder over for want of issue; and, on that re-
mainder failing, then to revert to the donor and his
heirs: in this case, if the tenant in tail dies without
issue, and also he in remainder, the donor and his heirs,
to whom the reversion returns, may have this writ for
the recovery of the estate, though the same be alienat-
ed, &c.