STATUTE OF AMENDMENTS AND JEOFAILS

Statute of Amendments and Jeofails (jef-aylz). Hist. One of several 15th- and 16th-century statutes allowing a party who acknowledges a pleading error to correct it.1 Hen. 5, ch. 5 (1413); 32 Hen. 8, ch. 30 (1540); 37 Hen. 8, ch. 6 (1545). See JEOFAIL.