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Manner And Form; Modo Et Forma

Formal words Introduced at the concluslon of a traverse. Their object is to put the party whose pleading is traversed not only to the proof that the matter of fact de-nied is, in its geueral effect, true as alleged, but also that the manner and form in whlch the fact or facts are set forth are also ca-pable of proof. Brown

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)