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general election

general election : an election usually held at regular intervals in which candidates are elected in all or most constituencies of a nation or state ...

General Insurance business, means fire, marine or miscellaneous insurance business, whether carried on singly or in combination with one or more of them. [Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938), s. 2 (6B)]...

general intangible

general intangible : any personal property that is not an account, chattel paper, document, instrument, goods, or money esp. as identified by section 9-106 of the Uniform Commercial Code ...

general intent

general intent see intent ...

General issue

General issue, a plea simply traversing modo et forma the allegations in the declaration, as the plea of 'not guilty' in torts; 'never indebted' to money counts, or 'nunquam assumpsit' to actions on simple contract (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, Sched. B, 37). Pleading the general issue was abolished by the (English) Judicature Acts, R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 4, providing that every pleading shall contain, and contain only, a statement in a summary form of the facts on which the party pleading relies; and the particular form of pleading the general issue by pleading ''not guilty by statute' (see that title) is abolished by the (English) Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893, as regards any proceeding to which that Act applies.In criminal proceedings the general issue is 'not guilty,' which is pleaded viva voce by the prisoner at the bar....

general jurisdiction

general jurisdiction see jurisdiction ...

general law

general law : a law that is unrestricted as to time, is applicable throughout the entire territory subject to the power of the legislature that enacted it, and applies to all persons in the same class called also general act general statute compare local law, public law, special law ...

general legacy

general legacy see legacy ...

general lien

general lien see lien ...