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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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In pleading. These are technical words used in a traverse (q. V.) for the purpose of denying a material fact in the preceding pleadings, whether declaration, plea, replication, etc. In Latin it is called absque hoe (q. v.) Lawes, PI.

119; Comyn, Dig. "Pleader" (G 1); Summary of Pleading, 75; 1 Saund. 103, note; Ld. Raym. 641; 1 Burrows, 320; 1 Chit. PI. 576, note (a).