misindex

present singular third person misindexes · participle present misindexing · participle past misindexed · past misindexed

1. To index incorrectly.

   Who bears the loss when a filing officer misindexes a financing statement or gives inaccurate information in response to a file search request?

   1992, Raymond T[heodore] Nimmer, Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger, “Perfection and Notice”, in Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing: Cases, Materials, Problems (Contemporary Legal Education Series), Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Company, →ISBN, part 1 (Basic Issues in Security), section F (Liability for Errors), page 153

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   Of course, in many cases the named grantee in the last recorded deed will not be the titleholder, or the titleholder’s name will have changed since the last recorded deed. […] In such cases a brief explanation is necessary to keep the recording officials from misindexing the deed.

   1986, Deborah Flynn, “Deeds of Conveyance”, in Introduction to Real Estate Law (West’s Paralegal Series), 2nd edition, St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Company, →ISBN, section II (The Elements of a Deed), page 123

   Virtually everything requested was provided except for the odd file that had been misindexed, mislaid, or consumed by the silverfish and other bibliovores that inhabit dark and dusty shelves.

   1993, Chris Sauer, “The Case Study Approach”, in Why Information Systems Fail: A Case Study Approach (Information Systems Series), Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Alfred Waller Limited, →ISBN, section 2 (Research Method for the Mandata Study), subsection 3 (The research process), page 140