Case Law Analysis
|Madhya Pradesh High Court
CPC Sections 151 & 153 | Typographical Errors in Compromise Applications Under Order XXIII Rule 3 May Be Corrected to Uphold Substantive Justice : MP HC Gwalior
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has affirmed that clerical mistakes in compromise applications - such as misidentifying parties in survey number allocations - can be rectified under the court’s inherent powers under Sections 151 and 153 CPC, even after decree issuance. This ruling empowers litigants to correct inadvertent drafting errors without reopening substantive agreements, reinforcing that procedural technicalities must not defeat the ends of justice in civil compromises.