(N. Y.) $33. Foreign laws are often the suggesting occasions of changes in, or additions to. our own laws, and in that respect are called ‘jus receptue.” Brown.—General law. A general law as copntradistinguished from one that is special or local, is a law that embraces a class of subjects or places. and does not omit any subject or place naturally pelongiog to such class. Van Riper y. Parsons, 40 N. J. Law. 1: Mathis v. Jones, 84 Ga. 804, 11 S. E. 1018: Brooks y. Hyde, 37