reformation for mistake
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Definitions from Case Law
From 26 U.S. 1 - Clement Hunt v. Christopher Rhodes · 1828Most cited · 167 citing opinions
Where an instrument is drawn and executed, which professes, or is intended, to carry into execution, an agreement, whether in writing or by parol, previously entered into, but which, by mistake of the draftsman, either as to fact or law, does not fulfil, or which violates the manifest intention of the parties to the agreement, equity will correct the mistake, so as to produce a conformity of the instrument to the agreement.