Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-04-19
LAW s OF OHIO
ny AUHOEsITY.
AN ACT

No. o7.1 AN ACT
To authorize Courts TO give effect to the
= Intention of parties and officers by Gu
ring defects, omissions and errors in in
struments and proceedings.
Section /. BE il enacted In the General
-ASSemJiy Of HE State Of Ohio, That
in all cases wherein aEy officer or officers,
party or parties, person or persons, OF
body corporate, or persons intending and
undertaking to become a body con porate
has heretofore made or may hereafter, by
reason of inadvertance or otherwise, make
any omission, defect or error in any in
sfrument in writing, or in any proce edirg,
whereby the same shall not be in strict
conformity with the laws of this State, it
shall be competent for the Courts of this
State, and they are hereby authorized to
give full effect 10 all such instruments and
proceedings according 10 The tue mani
fest intention of the parties thereto.
Sec. 9. That whenever any such error,
omission or defect, shall have occurred OF
may hereafter occur in any instrument OF
proceeding, which is required to be made
a matter Of record, it shall be competent
for any party or parties. person or persons.
body corporate or persons intending and
undertaking to become body corporate
having or claiming an interest in the cor
Iection of such error, omission or defect
10 file his, her or their petition in any
Court of Common Pleas having jur,sdc
tion in the premises setting forth particu-
slarly the error, defect or omission com :
planned OF, and ask an order of such Court
tor the correction thereof; and in all cases
where such application is made by any
body corporate, or by persons intending
and undertaking TO become body corpo-
rate, such Court upon being satisfied that
notice of such application, specifying tie
error. defect or omission complained Of
and Of the time and place of hearing the
same has been duly published for six cor
Recutive weeks in some newspaper in gem
eral circulation in the county where such
application may he made, and in all cases
whenever the party or parties interested
have been duly brought before the Court
in the manner prescribed by law for max inc
service in civil actions, and upon being
satisfied that such mistake, error or onlis-
sion has been made, shall grant and make
an order 10 correct tie same, which order
shall be fled in the Office in which such
record is required to be kept, aud from
and after such fling the said record and
the order correcting The same shall be re-
ceived as evidence in all cases, in ali
Courts the same as If no such error, oms-
sion or defect had ever existed
Sec. 8. That when the record to be
corrected is in any way connected with
any body corporate, the proceedings men
toned i'll the last preceding section shall
be had in the Court Of Common Pleas of
the county wherein the principal office of
such corporation is located, and in all
other cases the same shall be had in the
county wherein such record is kept.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be
in full force from and after its passage
WILLIAM B. WOODS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
T.. BASSETT LANGDON,
President, pro tem of the Senate.
March 10 1859