Amendment
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Practice. The correction, by allowance of the court, of an error committed in the progress of a cause, whether in process, pleading, proceedings, or judgment. It has been held not to include the substitution of a new pleading. 31 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 164; but see 4 Daly (N. Y.) 494. In Legislation, An alteration or change of something proposed in a bill or established as law.