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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

practice, a term used by the clerk in court to every prisoner who is arraigned and pleads not gutlty, to whom he wishes a good deliverance. In modern practice this is seldom used.