amendment definition

amendment

Change in a legal document made by adding, altering, or omitting a certain part or term. Amended documents, when properly executed (signed by all parties concerned), retain the legal validity of the original document. For construction or supply contracts, amendment refers to change made before the contract is awarded, any change made afterwards is called modification.

amendment is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law subject.

amendment appears in the definitions of the following terms: adjustments estimate, bill of rights, soft clause, doctrine of scrivener's error, International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code, Hague-Visby rules and obscene

amendment appears in these other terms: contract amendment, articles of amendment

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