Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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alteration
1. a substantial change to real estate, esp. to a structure, not involving an addition to or removal of the exterior dimensions (if a building's structural parts. 0 although any addition to or improvement of real estate is by its very nature an alteration, real-estate law yers habitually use alteration in reference to a: lesser change. still, to constitute an alteration). the change must be substantial - not simply a trifling modification. 2. an act done to an in strument, after its execution, whereby its, meaning or language is changed; esp., the, changing of a term in a negotiable instrumen without the consent of all parties to it. ( mat. -rial alterations void an instrument, but imrrterial ones do not. an alteration is material if (1) changes the burden of a party (as by changing the date, time, place, amount, or rate interest), (2) changes the liabilities or duties ;;i any party (as by adding or removing the name of a maker, drawer, indorser, payee, or co, surety), or (3) changes the operation of the instrument or its effect in evidence (as by adding words or negotiability, changing the form an indorsement, or changing the liability fro, joint to several)
colorable alteration
Intellectual property. A modification that effects no real or substantial change, but is made only to distinguish an invention or work from an existing patent or copyright.
material alteration
See ALTERATION,
memorandum of alteration
English law. A patentee's disclaimer of certain rights - such as rights to part of an invention that is not new and useful - to avoid losing the whole patent. ( Under former law, if a patent was granted to two inventions, one of which was not new and useful, the entire patent would be defective.
structural alteration
See ALTER.;