unessential mistake

Contracts. A mistake that does not relate to the nature of the contents of an agreement, but only to some external circumstance, so that the mistake has no effect on the validity of the agreement.

— Also termed inessential mistake; nonessential mistake; collateral mistake. [Cases: Contracts 93. C.J.S. Contracts §§ 136, 147–148.]

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