from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
ISSUE ROLL, Eng. law. The name of a record which contains an entry of the
term of which the demurrer book, issue or paper book is entitled, and the,
warrants of attorney supposed to have been given by the parties at the
commencement of the cause, and then proceeds with the transcript of the
declaration and subsequent pleadings, continuances, and award of the mode of
the decision as contained in the demurrer, issue or paper book. Steph. Pl.
98, 99. After final judgment, the issue roll is no longer called by that
name, but assumes that of judgment roll. 2 Arch. Pr. 206.