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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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