Amendment
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Fr. amendement; L. Lat. emendatio.] In practice. The correction of an error committed in any process, pleading or proceeding at law, or in equity, and which is done either of course, or by the consent of parties, or upon motion to the court in which the proceeding is pending.
3 Bl. Com. 407, 448. 1 Tidd's Pr. 696. 8 Co. 156, [319.] Mansel on Demurrer, 104, 149. Mitford's Chanc. Pl. 13. 1 Daniell's Chanc. Pr. 464. 2 Id. 911. 1 Barbour's Chanc. Pr. 206.
Com. Dig. Amendment. United States Digest, Amendment.