clerical error

He was facing 105 years in prison for what he portrayed as essentially a clerical error.

The ig is either a clerical error of the monkish scribe for y, or the g is a silent letter producing the quantity of the vowel.

Yet in no single instance, though each of them contains errors, have I found a clerical error common to both.

Clerical error and special alterations have both to be allowed for.

One possibility is that the crossing out of "have not" is a clerical error, and that he did not intend to do this.

It is not unlikely that this name is a clerical error for Nineve or Ninive.