misreturn

Etymology

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1. 1

   The return of a process or other document that was done improperly.

   • If a venire is awarded to the coroners, and returned by two of them only, whereas at the time of the award and return thereof there were two more, this is only a misreturn, and aided.
   • We can not, therefore, avoid the conclusion that a return was made of the service of the writ, and from this it results that this was an insufficient or misreturn, which is amendable.
2. 2

   To return improperly.

   • In each case inquiry of the strictest kind was set on foot, and where possible, the individual whose religion had been alleged to have been misreturned was interrogated by the enumerators upon the part of the Commissioners.
   • Thousands of papers had been misfiled or misreturned to the files during the past several years and hundreds are missing.

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