diff --git a/src/xrpld/app/ledger/LedgerMaster.h b/src/xrpld/app/ledger/LedgerMaster.h
index 27bd2cdb9e..ff12e8a314 100644
--- a/src/xrpld/app/ledger/LedgerMaster.h
+++ b/src/xrpld/app/ledger/LedgerMaster.h
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ class Transaction;
  * Four ledgers are tracked, and they can all differ:
  *
  *   current    open ledger new transactions go into (owned by OpenLedger)
- *   closed     most recently closed ledger, not yet fully validated
+ *   closed     most recently closed ledger; may already be validated
  *   validated  highest ledger with a quorum of trusted validations
- *   published  highest ledger handed to subscribed clients; lags validated
+ *   published  highest ledger handed to subscribed clients; can lag validated
  *
  *   RCLConsensus ──switchLCL/consensusBuilt──> LedgerMaster
  *   PeerImp ──────gotFetchPack/makeFetchPack─>     │
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ public:
      * @return true if able to fulfill request.
      */
     bool
-    newOrderBookDB();  // Returns true if able to fulfill request.
+    newOrderBookDB();
 
     /**
      * Corrects the cached sequence-to-hash mapping for one ledger.
diff --git a/src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/LedgerMaster.cpp b/src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/LedgerMaster.cpp
index 06e1b0af57..d38a2ad110 100644
--- a/src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/LedgerMaster.cpp
+++ b/src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/LedgerMaster.cpp
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ LedgerMaster::consensusBuilt(
      *
      * One tally per ledger hash, built while scanning the current trusted
      * validations. A validation names a hash but not always a usable sequence,
-     * so the first sequence seen for a hash is kept and later ones ignored.
+     * so the first nonzero sequence seen for a hash is kept.
      *
      * @note Not thread-safe, and not intended to be: instances live only inside
      * the loop below, which holds no lock.