Mistake definition

Mistake means every type of error, clerical or otherwise.
Mistake means, for a public works project, a clerical error
Mistake means, for a public works project, a clerical error that is an unintentional and substantial computational error or an unintentional omission of a substantial quantity of labor, material, or both, from the final bid computation.

Examples of Mistake in a sentence

  • The district court found Pace’s allegations failed to meet either the Mississippi or the federal pleading standard.The federal standard is found in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b):Fraud or Mistake; Conditions of Mind.

  • J., et al., Fusion in a Bottle: Miracle or Mistake?, in Business Week.

  • Free Consent – Coercion - Undue influence –Misrepresentation – Fraud – Mistake – Legality of Object – Void Agreements – Agreements against Public Policy – Wagering Agreements – Its exceptions – Contingent Contracts.

  • So does Obrafo in his song titled "Who Born You by Mistake", on his " Odo " album boast about himself and claims that he is an elderly person on the rap scene and hence he should be accorded respect.

  • See also Bruce Vielmetti, “Couple Charged with Double Voting Say It Was Honest Mistake; They Say Press Releases Unfairly Link Them to ACORN,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 3, 2010; Bruce Vielmetti, “Voter Fraud Verdict: Not Guilty; Jurors Acquit Couple Who Cast 2 Ballots Each in 2008 Election,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 26, 2011.


More Definitions of Mistake

Mistake means a use of incorrect basic information or an inappropriate application of the calculation procedure.
Mistake means if we fail to act on a Payment Instruction received from you or we do not follow your Payment Instruction or we accidentally duplicate a Payment Instruction.
Mistake means the cases where the Electronic Financial Transaction is not executed hereunder or by following the transaction direction of the User without willful misconduct or negligence of the User.
Mistake means an erroneous conception regarding actual facts.
Mistake means an error in an underlying assumption on which the Target Cost is based;
Mistake means, for a public works project, a clerical error that is an unintentional and
Mistake in Rule 15(c)(1)(C)(ii) means an actual mistake. Brown v. Cuyahoga County, 517 F. App’x 431, 435 (6th Cir. 2013) (citing Krupski v. Costa Crociere S.p.A., 130 S.Ct. 2485, 2494 (2010)). And, in the Sixth Circuit, courts have a longstanding precedent for interpreting Rule 15(c)(1)(C) “strictly.” Brown, 517 F. App’x at 435. This understanding of the rule prevents “eleventh-hour lawsuits with placeholder defendants designed to frustrate the operation of a statute of limitations.” Brown, 517 F. App’x at 435 (citing Cox v. Treadway, 75 F.3d 230, 240 (6th Cir. 1996)). More specifically, a mistake is not replacing a John Doe defendant with the party’s name. Smith v. City of Akron, 476 F. App’x 67, 69 (6th Cir. 2012) (citing Cox, 75 F.3d at 240). Rule 15(c) does not offer a remedy for situations where plaintiffs wait until the last day to file and do not leave any time to identify defendants within the relevant times. Smith, 476 F. App’x at 69 (“The Rule allows relations back for the mistaken identification of defendants, not for defendants to be named later through ‘John Doe,’ ‘Unnamed Defendants’ or other missing appellations.”).