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Clerical error

be explained by considering it to be a slip or mistake of the party preparing or copying it. Clerical errors in

6, c. 9. Also, certain void spaces, sometimes left by mistake, in judicial proceedings, and which, if anything material be wanting,

to ministerial acts, certain, mutual, possible, and consistent, without palpable mistake; when partly good and partly bad, the good part, if

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reserve. As to the right to specific performance when a mistake has been made by the auctioneer, see Re Hare and

Apparent error, an apparent error means a patent mistake, an error which one could point out without any elaborate

of a sum of money or other thing paid by mistake, Civil Law.

debts charged in the account, as, for instance, by proving mistake (among other ordinary defences); Camillo Tank Steamship Co. v. Alexandria

of a bidder purchasing a wrong lot by his own mistake, see Van Praagh v. Everidge, (1903) 1 Ch 434.

caused by the lessee, or is based on a good-faith mistake of fact, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 851.

Repetition, a recovery of money paid under mistake, Civ. Law.

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