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Error of law

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

He is under an error of law who is truly informed of the existence of facts, but who draws from them erroneous conclusions of law. Civ. Code La. art.

1822. Mowatt v. Wright, 1 Wend. (N. Y.) 360, 19 Am. Dec. 508.