The phrase "a manifest error" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a clear and obvious mistake, often in legal or formal contexts.
Example: "The court found that there was a manifest error in the judgment that needed to be corrected."
Alternatives: "an obvious mistake" or "a clear error".
if the moving party presents newly discovered evidence, if there has been an intervening change in the law, or if the movant can demonstrate that the original decision was based on a manifest error of law or was clearly unjust.
The case presented by the European Commission in 2004 in favour of allowing the merger was "vitiated by a manifest error of assessment"; its arguments were incomplete and did not include relevant data.
"We would have to decide whether there was a manifest error on the part of the state authorities concerned, and in particular of the national courts concerned, before we could reject a case as inadmissible under the new criterion... Ultimately, in those cases we would be the ones who would be interpreting the provision and applying it".
And Digital Rights Ireland has filed a challenge in the EU's General Court, stating that the decision to implement Privacy Shield had been a "manifest error of assessment".
There is still time for the commission to correct what appears to be a manifest error.
The district court shall enforce the Commission order unless the Commission record reflects manifest error and an abuse of discretion by the Commission.
We hold that it was manifest error for the chancellor to use a consumption rate which is based on a hypothetical prospect that the children would eventually have a spouse and have children of their own, both of which require support.
This was simply not true, and it was manifest error for the chancellor to state so in his opinion.
Furthermore, it is manifest error to tie the children's projected future income to that of their mother.
The commission, it said, had been guilty of "manifest error" and had "exceeded the bounds of its discretion".
When a Court of Appeals honors the Constitution by granting the Great Writ or in its solemn judgment denies it, we should let the matter rest there, save for manifest error.
