Clerical error

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A clerical error is an error on part of an office worker, often a secretary or personal assistant. It is a phrase which can also be used as an excuse to deflect blame away from specific individuals, such as high powered executives, and instead redirect it to the more anonymous, less identifiable, less punishable, and certainly less embarrassable clerical staff.

A clerical error in a legal document is called a scrivener's error. There is a considerable body of case law concerning the proper treatment of a scrivener's error.^{[citation needed]}

Ex. Where the parties to a contract make an oral agreement, when reduced to a writing is mistranscribed, the aggrieved party is entitled to reformation so that the writing corresponds to the oral agreement. - Flemings Fundementals of Law/Farhod Azarbaydjani