Deliverance
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DELIVERANCE, 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.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.