Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In pleading. Formal words used in pleadings by way of traverse, particularly by way of special traverse, (q. v.,) Importing an express denial of some matter of fact alleged in a previous pleading. Steph. PI. 168, 169, 179, 180.