Jeofail - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: jeofailJeofails, Statutes of
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....
Jeofail
An oversight in pleading or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight...
Mispleading
Mispleading. See JEOFAILS....
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