Rasure, Or Erasure - Definition - Law Dictionary

Definition :

Rasure, or Erasure, the act of scraping or shaving.

Means the scraping or shaving of a document's surface to remove the writing from it, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., 1268.

Rasure of a deed, so as to alter it in a material part, without consent of the party bound by it, etc., will make the same void, and if it be rased in the date after delivery, it is said it goes through the whole. Where a deed by rasure, addition, or alteration becomes no deed, the defendant may plead non est factum, 5 Rep. 23, 119.

A rasure or interlineation in a deed is presumed, in the absence of rebutting evidence, to have been made at or before its execution, but in a will it is presumed to have been made after its execution. See INTERLINEATION.