misadd

present singular third person misadds · participle present misadding · participle past misadded · past misadded

1. To add incorrectly.

   And where a barrister, in summing up the items proved before him as arbitrator, misadded them, and thereby by mistake omitted 23l. in favour of the plaintiff, the Court, even at the instance of the barrister, would not allow an amendment, the defendant's counsel objecting.

   1837, Joseph Chitty, The Practice of the Law in All Its Principal Departments, page 116