Definition of Issue

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Definition of Issue

Issue

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.

That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.

Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.

Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.

A discharge of flux, as of blood.

An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.

The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.

A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.

In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.

To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.

To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.

To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.

To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.

To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.

To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.

To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

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Issue Quotations

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. Kennedy

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie Robinson

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
George W. Bush

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Issue Translations

issue in Afrikaans is afkondig
issue in Danish is udgive
issue in Dutch is uitgeven, emitteren
issue in German is ausgeben, Ausgabe, Nummer, ausgeben, Ergebnis
issue in Italian is emettere
issue in Latin is eventus, exorior

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