General court
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The name given to the legislature of Massachusetts and of New Haimj-shire, in colonial times, and subsequently i5y their constitutions; so called because the colonial legislature of Massachusetts grew out of the general court or meeting of the Massachusetts Company.
Cant. Diet. See Citizens' Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Topeka, 20 Wail. 666, 22 L. Ed. 455.