pleading. The general issue in formed on; and is in the following formula: And the said C D, by J K, his attorney, comes and defends the right, when, and says, that the said E F did not give the said manor, with the appurtenances, or ally part thereof, to the said G B, and the heirs of his body issuing, in manner and form as the said A B hath in his count above alleged.’ And of this the said C D puts himself upon the country.