Misrepresentation vs. Mistake — What's the Difference?

In common law jurisdictions, a misrepresentation is an untrue or misleading statement of fact made during negotiations by one party to another, the statement then inducing that other party to enter into a contract. The misled party may normally rescind the contract, and sometimes may be awarded damages as well (or instead of rescission).

An act or judgement that is misguided or wrong

To give an incorrect or misleading representation of.

Be wrong about

To serve incorrectly or dishonestly as an official representative of.

An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.

Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.

A misconception or misunderstanding.

Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.

To understand wrongly; misinterpret

In map-making, faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.

To recognize or identify incorrectly

Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; - usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.

To make a mistake; err.

A misleading falsehood

(transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

To misunderstand (someone).

To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.

To take or choose wrongly.

An error; a blunder.

(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

To take or choose wrongly.

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.

To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.

To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.

To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.

An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.

Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.

A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;

An understanding of something that is not correct;

Part of a statement that is not correct;

Identify incorrectly;

To make a mistake or be incorrect