Mistake (contract law) void. Traditionally, Caveat Emptor (let the buyer beware), and under Common Law Caveat Venditor (let the seller beware). A contract might be voidable from unilateral mistake for any of the following: A mutual mistake occurs when the parties to a contract are both mistaken about the same "material" fact within their contract. They are at cross-purposes. There is a meeting of the minds, but the parties are mistaken. Hence the contract is voidable. "Collateral" mistakes will not afford the right of rescission. A collateral mistake is one that 'does not go to the heart' of the contract. For a mutual
Beware the Cat had originally intended. An abridged and rewritten version in modern English by David Haden, was published in his "Tales of Lovecraftian Cats" (2010) along with Haden's adaptations of public domain horror stories by other authors. Beware the Cat Beware the Cat (1561) is a short English novel (or is that "novella"?) written by the printer's assistant and poet William Baldwin (sometimes called Gulielmus Baldwin), in early 1553. It is notable as the first horror fiction text longer than a short story and has also been claimed by some academics as the first novel ever published in English of any kind.