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TRAVERSE,

Legal Term: TRAVERSE,
Definition: crim. law practice. This is a technical term, which means to turnover: it is applied to an issue taken upon an indictment for a misdemeanor, and means nothing more than turning over or putting off the trial to a following sessions or assize; it has, perhaps with more propriety, been applied to the denying or taking issue upon an indictment, without reference to the delay of trial. Dick. Sess. 151; Burn~s Just. h. t.; 4 Bl. Com. 351.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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