Doctrine of Scrivener's Error Law and Legal Definition
Doctrine of Scrivener's error is a legal principle which permits a typographical error in a written contract to be corrected by parol evidence if the evidence is clear, convincing, and precise. However if such correction affects property rights then it must be approved by those affected by it. Scrivener's error is an error due to a minor mistake or inadvertence and not one that occurs from judicial reasoning or determination.
Legal Definition list
- Doctrine of Scrivener's Error
- Doctrine of Revestment
- Doctrine of Relation Back
- Doctrine of Preclusion of Inconsistent Positions
- Doctrine of Precedent
- Doctrine of Separate Spheres
- Doctrine of Specialty
- Doctrine of Substantial Performance
- Doctrine of Substituted Judgment
- Doctrine of Superior Equities
- Doctrine of Tenures
