misreading

misreading
The perpetration of a fraud upon a person who signs an instrument by purporting to read the contents to him, but by reading something very different. First Nat. Bank of Sturgis v Deal, 55 Mich 592, 593.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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  • misreading — index catachresis Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Misreading — Misread Mis*read , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Misread}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Misreading}.] To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • misreading — См. errore di lettura …   Пятиязычный словарь лингвистических терминов

  • misreading — noun an incorrect reading …   Wiktionary

  • misreading — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, catachresis, contorting, distortion, eisegesis, error, error in judgment, garbling, gloss, injudiciousness, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misappreciation, misapprehension, miscalculation,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • misreading — mis read || ‚mɪsrɪːd v. read incorrectly, interpret incorrectly …   English contemporary dictionary

  • misreading — See: misread …   English dictionary

  • misreading — Reading a deed or other instrument to an illiterate or blind man (who is a party to it) in a false or deceitful manner, so that he conceives a wrong idea of its tenor or contents …   Black's law dictionary

  • misreading — Reading a deed or other instrument to an illiterate or blind man (who is a party to it) in a false or deceitful manner, so that he conceives a wrong idea of its tenor or contents …   Black's law dictionary

  • misreading — noun misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading • Derivationally related forms: ↑misread • Hypernyms: ↑misinterpretation, ↑misunderstanding, ↑mistaking …   Useful english dictionary

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