Question

Any mistake in any decisions will vitiate what of his findings?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Thus mistake is mainly error in consent. Mistake in legal sense bears a more restricted meaning than in popular parlance. Mistake, which vitiates a contract, is sometimes referred to as “operative mistake”. At common law mistake of expression, want of mutuality and failure of expression would seem to stand apart from the law of mistake. The first concerns the realm of interpretation and not the formation of contract. The second is altogether a negative of agreement and the third appertains to construction. Where a contract is vitiated by mistake, the contract is void because there is no real consensus between the parties.

But if the contract is vitiated by misrepresentation, fraud, duress or coercion then it is only voidable because there is only an error in the motive or the reason which induced one party to give his consent, i.e., error in causa or the inducing cause.