Mistake - Law Dictionary Search Results
miscalculation
a mistake in calculating
Inerringly
Without error mistake or deviation unerringly
foul up
an embarrassing mistake
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boo boo
an embarrassing mistake
boner
an embarrassing mistake
Idem sonans
A wrong or unsuit-able name. The courts will not set aside proceed-ings on account of the mispronunciation or mistake of names sounding alike, unless substantial in-justice has been done. See Reg. v. Mellor, (1858) 27 LJQB 121,
Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat
ignor-ance of the facts is recoverable, provided there have been no laches in the party paying it. See MISTAKE. In criminal cases this maxim applies, as if a man should think he has a right to kill
Misnomer
Misnomer, a wrong name. Nil facit error nominis cum de corpore vel persona constat. 11 Rep. 21.--(A mistake in the name does not matter when there is no mistake in the body or person.) Misnomers in
Stare decisis
is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction authorised to construe it, such declaration, in absence of palpable mistake or error, is itself evidence of the law until changed by competent authority. It requires that rules of
Actus curiae neminem gravabit.
and it is the bounden duty of Courts to see that if a person is harmed by a mistake of the Court he should be restored to the position he would have occupied but for that mistake,
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