General Court
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The Massachusetts legislature is so called.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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.
Defined under General in Black's Law Dictionary.