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Error. The name for recourse to the Court of Exchequer Chamber from any of the inferior tribunals, by reason of defects in the record, or to the House of Lords from the Exchequer Chamber; or to the King's Bench Division of the High Court in criminal cases. Proceedings in error were abolished by the (English) Jud. Act, 1875, Order VLIII., r. 1, except in criminal cases, appeal being substituted in civil cases.

In criminal cases also writs of error are now abolished by s. 20(1) of the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907. See, for the procedure, Rules 173-205 of the (English) Crown Office Rules of 1906.

A psychological state that does not confirm to objective reality; a belief that what is false or that what is true is false, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.