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Foreign judgment

and it will be no defence to an action founded on it that the foreign court made a mistake either in its own law or ours. But it may be impeached if the foreign court acted perversely,

Misprision

and contempts, punishable by fine and imprisonment. See 4 Bl. Com. 119 et seq. Misprisions of clerks are mistakes made by clerks, etc., in writing or keeping records

Messuage

Messuage [fr. messuagium, Law Lat., formed perhaps fr. mesnage, by mistake of the n, in court hand, for u, they being written alike; or fr. maison, Fr.], a dwelling-house

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Lots

Sale, 34 (2) (i)] As to the position of a bidder purchasing a wrong lot by his own mistake, see Van Praagh v. Everidge, (1903) 1 Ch 434.

Judicial control

lessee's breach is of minor importance, is not caused by the lessee, or is based on a good-faith mistake of fact, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 851.

Judge

them in their trust and office, and in wilful abuse of the same, but only in ignorance, and mistaking either of the law or of the case in matter of fact.' A Judge, de facto is one

no original jurisdiction over causes, but only upon appeals and proceedings in error to rectify any injustice or mistake of the law committed by the courts below, 3 Hallam's Constit. Hist.; Consult Macqueen's Practice of the House

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

only where a witness speaks to a fact with reference to which he cannot be presumed liable to mistake. The maxim falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (false in one thing, false in every thing) is neither

Condictio indebiti

Condictio indebiti, an action for the recovery of a sum of money or other thing paid by mistake, Civil Law.

Errors excepted

Errors excepted, a phrase appended to an account stated, in order to excuse slight mistakes or oversights. Accounts are commonly signed with the addition E. and O.E.-'Errors and omissions excepted.'

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