At this point Miles ran out of prescribed formalities, and was on his own.

There are diverse consequences for non-compliance with prescribed formalities:

They also require unusual solemnity, being written with notarial wording according to strict prescribed formalities of language and often form precedents.

It held further that, if the resolution as reported and adopted could be regarded as a regulation, the prescribed formalities for its promulgation under section 55 of the Act had not been observed.

First, by virtue of being an official act, a presumption of regularity attaches to the instrument, meaning all prescribed formalities have been carried out, including the reading over of the instrument.

A removable rector is, therefore, one who may be removed without cause expressed in law, but not without a just cause; one who may be removed without canonical process, but not without certain prescribed formalities, which are really judicial, though "extra-judicial" as regards the canons.