Rectify - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rectifyRectify
To make or set right to correct from a wrong erroneous or false state to amend as to rectify errors mistakes or abuses to rectify the will the judgment opinions to rectify disorders...
Rectifiable
Capable of being rectified as a rectifiable mistake...
Rectifier
One who or that which rectifies...
Rectificator
That which rectifies or refines esp a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation a rectifier...
Rectification
Rectification, implies the correctness of an error or removal of defects or imperfections. It implies prior existence of error, mistake, or defect, which after rectification is made right, and corrected by removal or the flaws, Benarsi Dass Saraf v. Dalmia Dadri Cement Ltd., (1967) 37 Comp Cas 440: AIR 1959 Punj 232.Rectification. The power to rectify a written document which, as drawn out, does not express the mutual and concurrent intention of the parties, is a power which the Courts of equity always possessed; but such jurisdiction is exercised with the greatest care and caution, and only on evidence of the clearest and most satisfactory description. Rectification has been made in almost every kind of instrument, e.g., in marriage settlements, Cogan v. Duffield, (1876) 2 Ch D 46; in agreements concerning land, Olley v. Fisher, (1886) 34 Ch D 367; in conveyances White v. White, (1872) LR 15 Eq 247; and in leases Cowan v. Truefitt, Ltd., (1899) 2 Ch 309. As to wills, see Vaughan v. Cl...
Calibrate
To ascertain the caliber of as of a thermometer tube also more generally to determine or rectify the graduation of as of the various standards or graduated instruments...
Camphine
Rectified oil of turpentine used for burning in lamps and as a common solvent in varnishes...
Dephlegmate
To deprive of superabundant water as by evaporation or distillation to clear of aqueous matter to rectify used of spirits and acids...
File closer
A commissioned or noncommissioned officer posted in the rear of a line or on the flank of a column of soldiers to rectify mistakes and insure steadiness and promptness in the ranks...
High proof
Highly rectified very strongly alcoholic as high proof spirits...