Merchants shall correct the errors or omissions which may occur in making entries in the books immediately thereafter, as soon as they notice them, clearly explaining in what they consisted and writing the phrase as it should have appeared.\nShould some time have elapsed since the error was committed or since the occurrence of the omission, they shall make the proper entry of correction, adding at the margin of the incorrect entry a memorandum calling attention to the correction.\nHistory —Commerce Code, 1932, § 37.
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