TRAVERSE

(A) crim. law practice. This is a technical term, which means to turnover: it is applied to an issue taken upon an indictment for a misdemeanor, and means nothing more than turning over or putting off the trial to a following sessions or assize; it has, perhaps with more propriety, been applied to the denying or taking issue upon an indictment, without reference to the delay of … [Read more...] about TRAVERSE

The term is used In a broad sense to designate those who patronize inns. Traveler is ope who travels in any way. Distance is not material. A townsman or neighbor may be a traveler, and therefore a guest at an inn, as well as he who comes from a distance or from a foreign Country. Walling v. Potter, 35 Conn. 185. … [Read more...] about TRAVELER

To go from one place to another at a distance; to journey; spoken of voluntary change of place. … [Read more...] about TRAVEL

The act of child-bearing. 2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 3. In some states, to render the mother of a bastard child a competent witness in the prosecution of the alleged father, she must have accused him of being the father during the time of her travail. … [Read more...] about TRAVAIL

In medical jurisprudence. A wound; any Injury to the body caused by e ternal violence. Traumatic. Caused by or resulting from a wound or any external injury; as, traumatic insanity, produced by an injury to or fracture of the skull with consequent pressure on the brain. Traumatism. A diseased condition of the body or any part of it caused by a wound or external injury. … [Read more...] about TRAUMA