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Deliverance

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In practice

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