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MUTATION OF LIBEL Definition & Legal Meaning

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In practice. An amendment allowed to a libel, by which there is an alteration of the substance of the libel, as by propounding a new cause of action, or asking one thing instead of another. Dunl. Adm. I’r. 213.

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