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General Court

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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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To supply the demand, the General Court passed a law for establishing a coinage of shillings, sixpences, and threepences.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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 Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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