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Free consent
or (3) fraud, as defined in s. 17, or (4) misrepresentation, as defined in s. 18, or (5) mistake, subject to the provisions of ss. 20, 21 and 22. Consent is said to be caused when it
error
deficiency, or accident departs from or fails to achieve what should be done [procedural s] ;esp : a mistake made by a lower court in conducting judicial proceedings or making findings in a case [to compel to
Default
may thereupon give judgment against him by default. The defendant allows judgment by default either intentionally or through mistake or neglect; intentionally, where he has no merits, or where he does so according to a previous agreement
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Clerical or arithmetical error
the record and does not depend for its discovery on argument or disputation. An arithmetical error is a mistake of calculation, and a clerical error is a mistake in writing or typing, Sooraj Devi v. Pyare Lal,
Error nominis
Error nominis, a mistake of detail in the name of a person; used in contradistinction to error de persona, a mistake as
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
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.
House of Lords
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
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,
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