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"An error resulting from a minor mistake or inadvertence, esp. in writing or copying something on the record, and not from judicial reasoning or determination."
"Also termed scrivener's error; vitium clerici. See vitium scriptoris."
Black's Law Dictionary 563 (7th ed. 1999).
May 24, 2010