Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

clerical error

An error resulting from a minor mistake or inadvertence, esp. in writing or copying something on the record, and not from judicial reasoning or determination.Among the boundless examples of clerical errors are omitting an appendix from a document; typing an incorrect number; mistranscribing a word; and failing to log a call. A court can correct a clerical error at any time, even after judgment has been entered. -Also termed scrivener's error; vitium clerici. See VITIUM SCRTPTORIS.