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parados

erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire a traverse

false b : a defense asserting that an opposing party's allegations are false compare affirmative defense at defense, traverse NOTE: Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, allegations that are not denied are taken as admitted, and

Chambranle

decoration around the sides and top of a door window or fireplace The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants

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Tolls at common law

Tolls at common law, is stated that the common law recognizes two classes of tolls payable under a grant or presumed grant from the Crown in respect of the passage of a highway or bridge, namely,...

Tender of issue

Tender of issue, is one of the common law pleading. Is a form attached to a traverse, by which the traversing party refers the issue to proper mode of trial, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,

Supersedeas

good cause shown, to stay some ordinary proceedings which ought otherwise to proceed, Fitz. N.B. 236. As to traverse and supersede as of an inquisition in lunacy, see Lunacy Act, 1890, ss. 101-107; and (English) Patients Estates

Qu' est eadem

whereof the plaintiff had complained. This allegation was usually termed qu' est eadem. It was equivalent to a traverse of the time and place named in the declaration, 1 Chit. Pleading, 581. It means which is the

clocking

the time taken to traverse a measured course as it was a world record clocking

Nul tiel record, issue of

Nul tiel record, issue of, a traverse that there is no such record. This was the proper form of issue whenever a question arose as

Modo et forma

et forma (in manner and form), a phrase formerly used in pleading. It was the nature of a traverse to deny the matter of fact in the adverse pleading in the manner and form in which it