Glossary definition(s) for: alteration
Dictionary definition(s) for: alteration
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n., An act done to a document after its completion whereby its meaning or language is changed.
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n., An act done to an instrument, after its execution whereby its meaning or language is changed; esp., the changing of a term in a negotiable instrument without the consent of all parties to it. Material alterations void an instrument, but immaterial ones do not.
[ - Black's Law Dictionary ]
Black's Law Dictionary. 8th ed. Edited by Bryan A.Garner and Henry Campbell Black. St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2004.
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v., Use for modifications to an object or structure. Refers especially to the physical evidence of the change. In architecture, use "additions" if the change increases the structure's volume; "alterations" if it does not.
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