- scrivener's error
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n. Mistake by preparer of a document that results in intent of the parties being thwarted; basis for not enforcing the document or reforming it.=>> mutual mistake.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
scrivener's error
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