Rectification, implies the correctness of an error or removal of defects or imperfections. It implies prior existence of error, mistake, or defect, which after rectification is made right, and corrected by removal or the flaws, Benarsi Dass Saraf v. Dalmia Dadri Cement Ltd., (1967) 37 Comp Cas 440: AIR 1959 Punj 232.
Rectification. The power to rectify a written document which, as drawn out, does not express the mutual and concurrent intention of the parties, is a power which the Courts of equity always possessed; but such jurisdiction is exercised with the greatest care and caution, and only on evidence of the clearest and most satisfactory description. Rectification has been made in almost every kind of instrument, e.g., in marriage settlements, Cogan v. Duffield, (1876) 2 Ch D 46; in agreements concerning land, Olley v. Fisher, (1886) 34 Ch D 367; in conveyances White v. White, (1872) LR 15 Eq 247; and in leases Cowan v. Truefitt, Ltd., (1899) 2 Ch 309. As to wills, see Vaughan v. Clerk, (1902) 87 LT 144; Re Schott, 1901 P. 190.
Also an alteration rectifying an entry in a register, e.g., company, patents, trade-marks, etc.
'Rectification' implies the correctness of an error or removal of defects or imperfections, Benarsi Das Saraf v. Dalmia Dadri Cement Ltd., AIR 1959 Punj 232 (235). (Companies Act, 1956, s. 155)
A court's equitable correction of a contractual term that is misstated; the judicial alteration of a written contract to make it conform to true intention of parties when in its original form, it did not reflect this intention, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1280.