pleading. The general issue in debt is simple contract. It is in the following form: And the said D, by E F, his attorney, comes and defends the wrong and injury, when and says, that he does not owe the said sum of money above demanded, or any part thereof, in manner and form as the said A B hath above complained. And of this the said C, D puts himself upon the country. When, in debt on specially, the deed is the only inducement to the action, the general issue is nil debet.