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No Writ of Summons to be invalid on account of verbal or technical Error or Omission.
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XVI. No Writ of Summons and Plaint issued under the Authority of this Act, or Copy thereof, shall be treated or considered as invalid on account of any verbal or technical Error or Omission in the same, or in any Endorsement on the same; and it shall be lawful for the said Superior Courts of Law respectively, or any Judge thereof, to decide and determine, on any Application respecting such Error or Omission, what is a verbal or technical Error or Omission in any such Writ or Copy, and to amend or authorize the Amendment thereof, or to set aside the same as irregular; but all Errors or Omissions which have not a manifest Tendency to mislead the opposite Party shall in all Cases be deemed merely verbal or technical.
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‘And whereas the Disuse of the technical Forms of Action heretofore used may give rise to Doubts respecting the Validity of Warrants of Attorney and other Writings wherein Reference is made to such Forms of Action, and also as to the Operation of Statutes of Limitation andother Statutes wherein Actions are described or referred to by the like technical Forms, and it is expedient that such Doubts should be precluded by express Enactment:’ Be it therefore enacted as follows:
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