Misstatement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: misstatementMisstate
To state wrongly as to misstate a question in debate...
lie
lie lay [lā] lain [lān] ly·ing : to be sustainable or capable of being maintained : have grounds under the law [holding that an action of battery would "Scott v. Bradford, 606 P.2d 554 (1979)"] [remedies for misrepresentation…will not for misstatements of opinion "W. L. Prosser and W. P. Keeton"] [appeals from the Tax Court to the…Circuit Court "D. Q. Posin"] lie in grant : to be transferable legally only by grant ...
Misstatement
An incorrect statement...
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 is made right, and corrected by removal or the flaws, Benarsi Dass Saraf v. Dalmia Dadri Cement Ltd., (1967) 37 Comp Cas 440: AIR 1959 Punj 232.Rectification. The power to rectify a written document which, as drawn out, does not express the mutual and concurrent intention of the parties, is a power which the Courts of equity always possessed; but such jurisdiction is exercised with the greatest care and caution, and only on evidence of the clearest and most satisfactory description. Rectification has been made in almost every kind of instrument, e.g., in marriage settlements, Cogan v. Duffield, (1876) 2 Ch D 46; in agreements concerning land, Olley v. Fisher, (1886) 34 Ch D 367; in conveyances White v. White, (1872) LR 15 Eq 247; and in leases Cowan v. Truefitt, Ltd., (1899) 2 Ch 309. As to wills, see Vaughan v. Cl...
Suppression of facts
Suppression of facts, failure to pay duty or take out a licence is not necessarily due to fraud or collusion or wilful misstatement or suppression of facts or contravention of any provision of the Act. Suppression of facts is not failure to disclose the legal consequences of a certain provision, Padmini Products v. CCE, AIR 1989 SC 2278 (2284): (1989) 4 SCC 275....
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