Jeofails, Statutes Of
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Definition
Jeofails, Statutes of. So called because when a pleader in the old days of oral pleading perceived any slip in the form of his allegation, he acknowledged the error by the expression j'ay faille (I have made a slip), and under these statutes obtained liberty to amend.
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