Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, an error in pleading or other proceeding, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or an oversight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight.
Etymologies
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From Old French j'ai failli ("I have failed").
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- a jeofail: a jeofail in the shape of a misrecital.
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