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General Issue

is pleading “Not guilty” to a criminal charge; “Never indebted” to a charge of debt; the issue formed by a general denial of the plaintiff’s charge.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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