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Definition :

Genus, in logic, connotes an idea or quality which is universal or common to a whole class, all the members of which are differentiated by that quality or idea from any other class; e.g., incorporeal hereditament is genus with respect to a rent, which is species, Woolley's Introd. To Logic, 45; Mill's Log., Bk. I. c. 7. See EJUSDEM GENERIS.

A general class comprising several species or division, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 695.