General Law

A general law, as contradistinguished from one that is special or local, is a law that embraces a class of subjects or places, and does not omit any subject or place naturally belonging to such class.

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J. Law, A law, framed in general terms, restricted to no lucality, and operating equally upon all of a group of objects, which, having regard to the purposes cf the legislativn, are distinguished by characteristics sufficiently marked and important to make them a class