Traverser
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who traverses or denies. TRAVERSING ANSWER or TRAVERSing note. In suits under the old English practice in chancery, where the defendant refused or neglected to file an answer to the bill, the plaintiff might file either a traversing answer or a traversing note, which produced the same effect as if the defendant had filed an answer traversing the case made by the bill.
Daniell, Ch. Prac. 436.
The modern practice dispenses with these fictions. See Rules of Court xxix. passim. See, also, "Pro Confess©."