Mistake
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An erroneous conception, conviction, or belief in respect to matter of either fact or law, arising from ignorance, surprise, imposition, or misplaced confidence.
See Story, Eq. Jur. § 110. 159 Iowa 529.
That result of ignorance of law or fact which has misled a person to commit that which, if he had not been in error, he would not have done. Jeremy, Eq. Jur. bk.
2, pt. 2, p. 358.
An erroneous mental condition, conception, or conviction induced by a misapprehension of the truth, without which the act complained of would not have taken place.
159 Iowa 529.
Distinction between "mistake" and "ignorance," see "Ignorance."