Brewer's: General Issue

is pleading “Not guilty” to a criminal charge; “Never indebted” to a charge of debt; the issue formed by a general denial of the plaintiff's charge.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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