Akademik

: a legal plea that traverses and denies an indictment, declaration, petition, or complaint in its entirety without admitting the truth of any allegations and without offering special matters to avoid the legal effect of the allegations set forth — compare special issue

general issue (law)

A simple denial of the whole charge, as ‘Not guilty’, instead of a special issue, an issue taken by denying a particular part of the allegations

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