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Interlineation, the insertion of any matter in a writ-ten instrument after it is engrossed or executed. A deed may be avoided by interlineation, unless a memorandum be made thereof at the time of the execution or attestation. If there be any inter-lineation or erasure in the jurat of an affidavit, the affidavit cannot be read, unless authenticated by initials of officer, etc., R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVIII., r. 12.

Interlineations in a will after execution, except so far as not 'apparent' (as to which see Ffinch v. Combe, 1894, P. 191), must, by s. 21 of the (English) Wills Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26), be executed as the Will itself (see WILL), but the signature of the testator and the subscriptions of the witnesses may be by initials. See INITIALS.