Modification

A change; an alteration which introduces new elements into the details or cancels some of them, but leaves the general purpose and effect of the subject-matter intact.

Wiley v

Corporation of Bluff-ton, 111 Ind. 152, 12 N. E. 165; State v. Tucker, 36 Or. 291, 61 Pac. 894, 51 h.

R. A. 246; Astor v. L'Amoreux, 4 Sandf. (N. Y.) 538. "Modification" is not exactly synonymous with "amendment," for the former term denotes some minor change in the substance of the thing, without reference to its improvement or deterioration thereby, while the latter word imports an amelioration of the thing (as by changing the phraseology of an instrument, so as to make it more distinct or specific) without involving the idea of any change in substance or essence.

In Scotch law

The term usually applied to the decree of the teind court, awarding a suitable stipend to the minister of a parish.

Bell.