NOTES TO RULE 61
Notes of Advisory Committee on Rules.
A combination of USC, Title 28, former § 391 (now § 2111) (New trials; harmless error) and former § 777 (Defects of form; amendments) with modifications. See McCandless v United States, 298 US 342, 56 S Ct 764, 80 L Ed 1205 (1936). Compare former Equity Rule 72 (Correction of Clerical Mistakes in Orders and Decrees); and last sentence of former Equity Rule 46 (Trial--Testimony Usually Taken in Open Court--Rulings on Objections to Evidence). For the last sentence see the last sentence of former Equity Rule 19 (Amendments Generally).