FORM

1. A model or skeleton of an in- strument to be used in a judicial proceeding, containing the principal necessary matters, the proper technical terms or phrases, and whatever else is necessary to make it formally correct, arranged in proper and methodical order, and capable of being adapted to the cir- cumstances of the specific case. 2. As distinguished from "substance," "form" means the legal or technical manner or order to be observed in legal instruments or juridical proceedings, or in the construc- tion of legal documents or processes. The distinction between "form" and "substance" is often important in reference to the validity or amendment of pleadings. If the matter of the plea is bad or insufficient, irrespective of the manner of setting it forth, the defect is one of substance. If the matter of the plea is good and sufficient, but is inartificially or defectively pleaded, the defect is one of form.

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The crime is generally defined to be "the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's rights." The intent to defraud is its essence. There must be a possibility of some person being defrauded. Where the effect, if successful, would be to defraud a particular person, he should be named in the indictment, if known; if otherwise, a general allegation of the intent should be made. The question of intent is for the jury; but such intent, to be proved, must be alleged. The nature of the offense is a species of false pretenses or fraud; hence the importance of setting forth the intent, and the name of the person, if known.¹ It is sufficient if the forgery would have the effect of defrauding a particular person. A person may not fraudulently sign his own name (in this case to a money-order) although identical with the name of the person who should have signed.2 Forgery of a bill or note is by counterfeiting a sigand that by an immediate or sufficiently early notice he enables the party to whom he paid it to indemnify himself as far as possible. The doctrine is favored that even negligence in making the mistake is no bar to a recovery.1 See ALTER, 2; COUNTERFEIT; FAITH, Good; GENUINE; MISTAKE; OBLIGATION, 2; ORDER. 1. Established method of expression or practice; a fixed way of proceeding. Compare COURSE, 2. 2. The model of an instrument or legal proceeding; a formula.2 See BLANKS. Opposed to substance. That without which nature, or by filling up a paper with a genuine signathe right sufficiently appears to the court is ture, so as to make it appear to be signed as maker, or indorser, or other party. "False, forged, and counterfeit," in the act of February 25, 1862 (12 St. L. 347), necessarily implies that the instrument so characterized is not genuine, but only purports to be, or is in the similitude of, such instrument.4 "False or forged," applied to an instrument in writing, means that the instrument is counterfeit or not genuine, that some one has attempted to imitate another's personal act, and, by means of such imitation, to cheat and defraud. To falsely make an affidavit is one thing; to make a false affidavit is another. It is the false making that is forgery. "form." Whatever is wanting or imperfect, by reason whereof the right appears not, is a defect of substance.3 Matter of form is whatever relates, not to the purpose or object of an instrument, or to a right involved in, or affected by, it, but merely to the language or expression, without affecting the issue presented, the evidence requisite, the right of a party, or a step necessary in furtherance of legal proceedings. Formal. Belonging or essential to the form or frame of a thing; not of the substance: as, a formal defect or irregularity, a formal party, q. v.; also, according to reguMaking and uttering an instrument as agent, under lar method of procedure. Opposed, substana false assumption of authority, is not forgery. In charging forgery, the variance or the omission of a letter, to be material, must change the word attempted to be written into another word having a different meaning. The rigor of the old English law in this respect was due to the barbarous punishments imposed. The insertion or omission of a word or words will not create a variance unless the sense is thereby altered. Illustrations of harmless changes are: "to H. C. P. or order," "B. A. or bearer," "pay to bearer," "undertood" for understood, "Fayelville" for Fayetville, "Jna." for Jno.7 Money paid under a mistake of fact can be recovered. Hence, where one pays money on forged paper by discounting or cashing it, he can always recover it, provided: that he has not himself contributed materially to the mistake by his own fault or negligence: 1 State v. Gavigan, 36 Kan. 326 (1887), Horton, C. J. United States v. Long, 30 F. R. 679 (1887). 2 Daniel, Neg. Inst., 2 ed., § 1344; 11 Gratt. 822. • United States v. Howell, 11 Wall. 432, 437 (1870). * State v. Wilson, 28 Minn. 54 (1881), Mitchell, J.; State v. Young, 46 N. H. 270 (1865); Mann v. People, 15 Hun, 155 (1878), cases; State v. McKiernan, 17 Nev. 228 (1882), cases. • United States v. Cameron, 3 Dak. T. 140 (1882). ' People v. Phillips, 70 Cal. 64-66 (1886), cases. tial, real. See DEMURRER. Form of action. The peculiar technical mode of framing the writ and pleadings appropriate to the particular injury which the action is intended to redress. 4 Forms of action. The classes into which actions at law are divided. Distinguishable, by peculiarities in the writs and pleadings, at common law, as account, annuity, assumpsit, covenant, debt, detinue, ejectment, replevin, trespass on the case; in some juris12 Daniel, Neg. Inst., 2 ed., § 1369, cases; Collins v. Gilbert, 94 U. S. 754 (1876), cases; Frank v. Lanier, 91 N. Y. 116 (1883), cases. See also 4 Wash. 726; 66 Ga. 53; 19 Iowa, 299; 29 id. 493, 495; 52 id. 68; 2 Me. 365; 50 id. 409; 3 Gray, 441; 114 Mass. 318; 16 Minn. 473; 46 N. H. 267; 1 Wend. 200; 9 id. 141; 17 id. 229; 91 N. Y. 113; 15 Ohio, 721; 1 Ohio St. 187; 2 Binn. 529; 3 Phila. 351; 32 Pa. 529; 89 id. 432; 37 Tex. 592; 2 Bish. Cr. L. § 495, 2 Cr. Pr. § 398; 3 Chitty, Cr. L. 1022; 2 Whart. Cr. L. § 1418; 2 Arch. Cr. Pr. 797; 4 Cr. L. Mag. 545, 865. 2 See Webster's Dict. 3 [Heard v. Baskerville, 1 Hob. *233; 109 U. S. 274. Broom, Com. Law, 118 (m).

A suffix used to denote in the form or shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance. The form of his visage was changed. Dan. iii. 19. And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. Milton. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer. Those whom form of laws Condemned to die. Dryden. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. Shak. Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty. The earth was without form and void. Gen. i. 2. He hath no form nor comeliness. Is. liii. 2. A shape; an image; a phantom. That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model. A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. "Ladies of a high form." Bp. Burnet. The seat or bed of a hare. As in a form sitteth a weary hare. Chaucer. The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms. The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law. Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of. The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.

To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion. God formed man of the dust of the ground. Gen. ii. 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. Rowe. To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. 'T is education forms the common mind. Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. Dryden. To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part. The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. Burke. To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. Drayton. To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

Acronym of family, occupation, recreation, motivation, a set of potential topics of conversation for use by salespeople etc.

To do with shape. | The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. | To do with shape. | A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. | To do with shape. | Regularity, beauty, or elegance. | To do with shape. | The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists. | To do with shape. | Characteristics not involving atomic components. | To do with shape. | A long bench with no back. | To do with shape. | The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. | To do with shape. | The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. | To do with structure or procedure. | An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. | To do with structure or procedure. | Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. | To do with structure or procedure. | Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. | To do with structure or procedure. | Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. | To do with structure or procedure. | A class or rank in society. | To do with structure or procedure. | Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something. | To do with structure or procedure. | Level of performance. | To do with structure or procedure. | A class or year of school pupils. | To do with structure or procedure. | A numbered division grouping school students (usually every two years) in education between Years 1 and 13 (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the form, as in sixth form). | A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. | A specimen document to be copied or imitated. | A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. | The den or home of a hare. | A window or dialogue box. | An infraspecific rank. | The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. | A quantic. | A specific way of performing a movement.

To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | To take shape. | To put together or bring into being; assemble. | To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. | To constitute, to compose, to make up. | To mould or model by instruction or discipline. | To provide (a hare) with a form. | To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.