REFORM

To correct, rectify, amend, remodel. Instruments inter parte11 may be reformed, when defective, by a court of equity. By this is meant that the court, after ascertaining the real and original intention of the parties to.a deed or other instrument, (which intention they failed to sufficiently ·expre , through some error, mistake of tact, or inadvertence,) will decree that the instrument be held and construed as it it fully and technically expre ed that intention. •See Sulllvan •• Haskin. 70 Vt. 487, 41 Atl. [s. 1011]