Omnibus Bill

Dictionary: 
Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

1. In legislative practice, a bill including in one act various separate and distinct matters, and particularly one joining a number of different subjects in one measure in such a way as to compel the executive authority to accept provisions which he does not approve or else defeat the whole enactment. See Co.m. v. Barnett, 199 Pa. 161, 48 Atl. 977, 55 In R. A. 882; Yeager v. Weaver, 64 Pa. 425.
2. In equity pleading, a bill embracing the whole of a complex subject-matter by uniting all parties in interest having adverse or conflicting claims, thereby avoiding circutty or multiplicity of action.

Author: 
Henry Campbell Black, M.A.
Publisher: 
West Publishing Company
Year Published: 
1910
Genre: 
Law Dictionary