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Legal maxim and Latin for a patent ambiguity is never helped by averment or extrinsic evidence. That which is patently ambiguous on its face cannot be made clear by external proof. … [Read more...] about AMBIGUITAS VERBORUM PATENS NULLA VERIFICATIONE EXCLUDITUR

A pleading that corrects or expands upon an earlier pleading. See also amended complaint, where a pleading by a party is altered, which may be as a result of correcting erroneous assumptions, typographical errors, discovery of new facts or parties. Amendment may require the permission of the court. May require permission of the court. … [Read more...] about AMENDED PLEADING

American Review of International Arbitration … [Read more...] about Am. Rev. Int'l Arb.

Doubtfulness; doubleness of meaning; indistinctness or uncertainty of meaning of an expression used in a written instrument. Nindle v. State Bank, 13 Neb. 245, 13 N. W. 275; Ellmaker v. Ellmaker, 4 Watts (Pa.) 89; Kraner v. Halsey, 82 Cal. 209, 22 Pac. 1137; Ward v. Epsy, 6 Humph. (Tenn.) 447. An ambiguity may be either latent or patent. It is the former, where the language … [Read more...] about AMBIGUITY

In practice. The correction of an error committed in any process, pleading, or proceeding at law, or in equity, and which is done either of course, or by the consent of parties, or upon motion to the court in which the proceeding is pending. 3 Bl. Comm. 407, 448; 1 Tidd, Pr. 696. Hardin v. Boyd, 113 U. S. 756, 5 Sup. Ct 771, 28 L. Ed. 1141. Any writing made or proposed as an … [Read more...] about AMENDMENT