The obliteration of words or marks from a written instrument by rubbing,scraping, or scratching them out. Also the place in a document where a word or wordshave been so removed. The term is sometimes used for the removal of parts of awriting by any means whatever, as by cancellation ; but this is not an accurate use.Cloud v. Hewitt, 5 Fed. Cas. 1,085; Vallier v. Brakke, 7 S. D. 343, 04 N. W. 180.
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