To correct, rectify, amend, remodel. Instruments inter partes may be reformed, when defective, by a court of equi-ty. By thls is meant that the court, after ascertaining the real and original intention of the parties to a deed or other Instrument, (which intention they failed to sufficiently express, through some error, mistake of fact, or inadvertence,) will decree that the in strument be held and construed as if it ful-ly and technically expressed that Intention See Sullivan ▼. Haskin, 70 Vt 487, 41 AU
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
