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General Court

n.
1. A legislative body having judicial powers in colonial New England.
2. The state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
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Gen′eral Court′


n.
1. the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
2. (in colonial New England) any of various local assemblies having both legislative and judicial powers.
[1620–30, Amer.]
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To supply the demand, the General Court passed a law for establishing a coinage of shillings, sixpences, and threepences.
I should want to stand well with my neighbors and be called Squire, and sent to General Court for a term or two; for a plain, honest man may do as much good there as a lawyer.
The deacons of many a church have drunk the communion wine with me; the selectmen of divers towns make me their chairman; and a majority of the Great and General Court are firm supporters of my interest.
"It must be for the Great and General Court to determine, whether stripes and long imprisonment, and other grievous penalty, may atone for his transgressions.
For, not only had his son and heir come into immediate enjoyment of a rich estate, but there was a claim through an Indian deed, confirmed by a subsequent grant of the General Court, to a vast and as yet unexplored and unmeasured tract of Eastern lands.
Release date- 04092019 - The representatives of the governments of the member states today appointed Gerhard Hesse (Austria) as judge to the General Court of the European Union.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the major was tried by a Field General Court Martial, which found the officer guilty of misusing his authority.
The officers - identified by the military's media wing as Lieutenant General (retd) Javed Iqbal, Brigadier (retd) Raja Rizwan and Doctor Wasim Akram - were tried under the Pakistan Army Act and Official Secrets Act by separate field general court martial in separate cases.
Summary: New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): Three senior Navy officers are facing a General Court Martial for their alleged negligence which led to the tipping over of frontline warship INS Betwa in 2016.
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"The officers were tried under Pakistan Army Act (PAA) and Official Secret Act by separate Field General Court Marshal (FGCM) for separate cases," said the statement issued by the military's media wing.

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