Misreturn

Quick meaning: Misreturn is a noun meaning (law) The return of a process or other document that was done improperly.

Meaning

(law) The return of a process or other document that was done improperly.

More Meanings

1. To return improperly.

Example Sentences

Thousands of papers had been misfiled or misreturned to the files during the past several years and hundreds are missing.

If a venire is awarded to the coroners, and returned by two of them only, whereas at the time of the award and return thereof there were two more, this is only a misreturn, and aided.

We can not, therefore, avoid the conclusion that a return was made of the service of the writ, and from this it results that this was an insufficient or misreturn, which is amendable.

In each case inquiry of the strictest kind was set on foot, and where possible, the individual whose religion had been alleged to have been misreturned was interrogated by the enumerators upon the part of the Commissioners.

Word Forms

• misreturns
• misreturning
• misreturned

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