Mistake of fact defined.

1. Law
2. Oklahoma Statutes
3. Contracts
4. Mistake of fact defined.

Mistake of fact is a mistake not caused by the neglect of a legal duty on the part of the person making the mistake, and consisting in:

1. An unconscious ignorance or forgetfulness of a fact past or present, material to the contract; or,

2. Belief in the present existence of a thing material to the contract, which does not exist, or in the past existence of such a thing, which has not existed.

R.L.1910, § 908.

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