General Issue
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In pleading. A plea which traverses and denies, briefly and in general and summary terms, the whole declaration, indiebinent, or complaint, without tendering new or special matter.
See Steph. Pl. 155.
Examples of the general issueare “not guilty,” “non assumpsit,” “nil debet,” “gon est factume”