When through fraud, mistake, or accident a written contract fails to express the real intention of the parties, such intention is to be regarded and the erroneous parts of the writing disregarded.
N.D. Cent. Code § 9-07-05
Real intention to govern in cases of fraud, mistake, or accident
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