Special traverse

A peculiar form of traverse or denial, the design of which, as distinguished from a common traverse, is to explain or qualify the denial, instead of putting it in the direct and absolute form. It consists of an affirmative and a negative part, the first setting forth the new affirmative matter tending to explain or qualify the denial, and technically called the "inducement," and the latter constituting the direct denial itself, and technically called the "absque hoc." Steph. PI.

169-180; Allen v. Stevens, 29 N. J. Law, 513; Chambers, v. Hunt, 18 N. J. Law. 352 ; People v. Pullman's Car Co.., 175 111. 125, 51 N. E. 664, 64 L. R. A. 366.