General Issue
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In pleading. A short general plea, in actions at law, denying the allegations contained ia the plaintiff's declaration in summary terms, and concluding with a tender of issue.* Steph, PL 156.
3 Steph, Com, 676. 1 ChitL PL 472.
It is called the general issue, according to Mr. Stephen, because the issue that it tenders, involving the whole declaration, or the principal part of it, is of a more general and comprehensive kind than that usually tendered by a common traverse. Steph, PL ub, sup. See Issue, Traverse,