In a rectification claim, the requirement of clear and convincing proof applies only to the ultimate findings — that the instrument does not correctly record the common intention and what that common intention was — and does not extend to intermediate findings of fact. Conventional principles of appellate restraint in interfering with credibility-based findings of fact apply in appeals from rectification decisions; the clear and convincing proof standard does not displace those principles.
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