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Note of allowance

was a note delivered by a master to a party to a cause, who alleged that there was error in law in the record and proceedings allowing him to bring error. See (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s.

Misconduct

in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary which runs as under: Misconduct means, misconduct arising from ill motive; acts of negligence, errors of judgment, or innocent mistake, do not constitute such misconduct. In industrial jurisprudence amongst others, habitual or gross

parity check

even or odd number of bits set to the value of 1 it is used primarily to detect errors in data especially in memory banks or in data transmitted over a communications line The parity can be

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Rectification

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

Restitution, Writ of

Restitution, Writ of. If the judgment below was reserved in a court of error, the plaintiff in error might have had a writ of restitution in order that he might be restored

Reversal of judgment

Reversal of judgment. A judgment might have been reversed without a writ of error, for matters foreign to or dehors the record, i.e., not apparent upon the face of it, so that

Illegally and with material irregularity

the words 'illegally' and 'with material irregularity' as used in clause (c) s. 15 do not cover either errors of fact or of law they do not refer to the decision arrived at but merely to the

With material irregularity

material irregularity, the words 'illegally' and 'with material irregularity' as used in this clause do not cover either errors of fact or of law, they do not refer to the decision arrived at but merely to the

Nullity

Nullity, want of force or efficacy; an error in litigation which is incurable, and thus differs from an irregularity, which is amendable. A decree is said

Vitium clerici nocere non debet

Vitium clerici nocere non debet. Jenk. Cent. 23.-(A clerical error ought not to hurt.) See CLERICAL ERROR.

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