Error

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Meaning of Error

See “Mistake.”

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United States Constitutional Meaning of Error

A form of writ issued by a higher court directing a lower court to submit a case for appellate review. The writ of error is no longer used in the federal courts, having been superseded by appeal (q.v.).

Synonyms of Error

noun

  • aberrance
  • aberrancy
  • aberration
  • corrigendum
  • delusion
  • deviation
  • distorted conception
  • distortion
  • erratum
  • erroneous statement
  • error
  • false conception
  • false impression
  • fault
  • flaw
  • inaccuracy
  • incorrect belief
  • inexactness
  • injustice
  • lapse
  • malapropism
  • misbelief
  • miscalculation
  • miscarriage of justice
  • miscomputation
  • misconception
  • misconjecture
  • miscount
  • misguidance
  • misinterpretation
  • misjudgment
  • misprint
  • misreckoning
  • misstatement
  • mistake
  • mistaken belief
  • mistaken judgment
  • mistranslation
  • misunderstanding
  • misuse of words
  • oversight
  • peccatum
  • poor judgment
  • slip
  • unfactualness
  • wrong course
  • wrong impression
  • wrongness
  • Associated Concepts: assignment of error
  • clerical error
  • confession of error
  • coram nobis
  • crosserrors
  • error apparent on the record
  • error of fact
  • error of judgment
  • error of law
  • fatal errors
  • fundamental error
  • harmful error
  • immaterial error
  • judicial error
  • legal error
  • manifest error
  • obvious error
  • plain error
  • prejudicial error
  • presentation of error
  • reversible error
  • substantial error
  • writ of error foreign phrases: De fide et officio judicis non recipitur quaestio
  • sed de scientia
  • sive sit error juris
  • sive facti
  • The good faith and honesty of a judge are not to be questioned
  • but his knowledge
  • whether it be in error of law or fact
  • may be
  • Praesentia corporis tollit errorem nominis; et veritas nominis tollit er rorem demonstrationis
  • The presence of the body cures an error in the name; and the accuracy of the name cures an error of description
  • Veritas nominis tollit errorem demonstrationis
  • Correctness of the name cures error in the description
  • Veritas demonstrationis tollit errorem nominis
  • Correctness of the description cures the error of the name
  • Error qui non resistitur approbatur
  • Errorfucatus nuda reritate in multis estprobabilior; et saepenumero rationibus vincit veritatem error
  • Error artfully disguised is
  • in many instances
  • more probable than naked truth; and frequently error overwhelms truth by argumentation
  • Non videntur qui errant consentire
  • Those who err are not deemed to consent
  • Falsa orthographia
  • Falsa orthographia
  • sive falsa grammatica
  • non vitiat concessionem
  • Bad spelling or grammar does not vitiate a deed
  • Vitium clerici nocere non debet
  • Clerical errors ought not to prejudice
  • Communis errorfacit jus
  • Common error makes the law
  • The good faith and honesty of a judge are not to be questioned
  • but his knowledge
  • whether it be in error of law or fact
  • may be
  • Praesentia corporis tollit errorem nominis; et veritas nominis tollit er rorem demonstrationis
  • The presence of the body cures an error in the name; and the accuracy of the name cures an error of description
  • Veritas nominis tollit errorem demonstrationis
  • Correctness of the name cures error in the description
  • Veritas demonstrationis tollit errorem nominis
  • Correctness of the description cures the error of the name
  • Error qui non resistitur approbatur
  • An error which is not resisted or opposed is waived
  • Errorfucatus nuda reritate in multis estprobabilior; et saepenumero rationibus vincit veritatem error
  • Error artfully disguised is
  • in many instances
  • more probable than naked truth; and frequently error overwhelms truth by argumentation
  • Non videntur qui errant consentire
  • Those who err are not deemed to consent
  • Falsa orthographia
  • sive falsa grammatica
  • non vitiat concessionem
  • Bad spelling or grammar does not vitiate a deed
  • Vitium clerici nocere non debet
  • Clerical errors ought not to prejudice
  • Communis errorfacit jus
  • Common error makes the law
  • Tutius erratur ex parte mitiori
  • It is safer to err on the side of leniency
  • In generalibus versatur error
  • Error thrives on generalities
  • Error juris nocet
  • An error of law works an injury
  • Nihil facit error nominis cum de corpore constat
  • An error in the name is of no consequence when there is certainty as to the person
  • Tutius semper est errare acquietando
  • quam inpuniendo; ex parte miseric ordiae quam ex parte justitiae
  • It is always safer to err in acquitting than in punishing; on the side of mercy rather than on the side of justice
  • Negatio conclusionis est error in lege
  • The denial of a conclusion is error in law
  • Erroresad sua principia referre
  • est refellere
  • To refer errors to their sources is to refute them

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Error

(You may find error at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).

also, through 18c., errour; c. 1300, “a deviation from truth made through ignorance or inadvertence, a mistake,” also “offense against morality or justice; transgression, wrong-doing, sin;” from Old French error “mistake, flaw, defect, heresy,” from Latin errorem (nominative error) “a wandering, straying, a going astray; meandering; doubt, uncertainty;” also “a figurative going astray, mistake,” from errare “to wander; to err” (see err). From early 14c. as “state of believing or practicing what is false or heretical; false opinion or belief, heresy.” From late 14c. as “deviation from what is normal; abnormality, aberration.” From 1726 as “difference between observed value and true value.” Words for “error” in most Indo-European languages originally meant “wander, go astray” (for example Greek plane in the New Testament, Old Norse villa, Lithuanian klaida, Sanskrit bhrama-), but Irish has dearmad “error,” from dermat “a forgetting.”

Meaning of Error in Spanish

Description/ translation of error into Spanish: error; harmless error (in the law of the United States/ en el derecho de los Estados Unidos): error inocuo, error inofensivo (el cometido durante un juicio que no influye en el sentido de la sentencia y que, por tanto, no puede fundamentar un recurso); harmless error standard: principio del error inocuo (es decir, el que no afecta a la marcha del proceso ni a su conclusión); harmful error: error perjudicial (el que influye en el sentido de la sentencia y es, por tanto, recurrible); plain error: error manifiesto (que además afecta decisivamente al sentido de la sentencia)[1]

Note: for more information on related terms and on the area of law where error belongs (criminal procedure law), in Spanish, see here.

Notes and References

  1. Translation of Error published by Antonio Peñaranda

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See Also

  • Law Dictionaries.
  • Clerical Error; Plain-Error Rule.

    semantic error, syntax error.

  • Error in Law Enforcement

    Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of error.

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    See Also

    • Law Enforcement Officer
    • Policeman
    • Law Enforcement Agency

    Further Reading

    English Legal System: Error

    In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Error :

    A mistake of law in a judgment or order of a court or in some procedural step in legal proceedings. A writ of error was formerly used to instruct an inferior court to send records of its proceedings for review by a superior court. It was abolished in civil cases by the Judicature Acts 1873-75 and in criminal cases by the Criminal Appeal Act 1907 and replaced by the modern system of *appeal.

    Error Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)

    The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Error in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Act that departs from what should be done; imprudent deviation, unintentional mistake or omission.

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