“Contributione facienda is a writ that lieth in case where more are bound to one thing, & one is put to the whole burden…. If tenents in comon or joynt, hold a mill (pro indiviso) & equally take the profits therof, the mill falling to decay, & one or more of them refusing to contribute toward the reparation therof, the rest shall have this writ….” John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607).
contributione facienda
contributione facienda (kon-tri-byoo-shee-oh-nee fay-shee-en-d[schwa]). [Latin “writ for making contribu-tion”] Hist. A writ to compel a tenant in common to contribute to a fellow tenant who has paid more than the tenant’s share of a sum for which all the tenants are liable.
