assumpsit
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They include bigly, deplorable, irregardless, icon, assumpsit, faute de mieux, in omnia paratus, revenant and feckless.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2016
The later fortunes of assumpsit can be briefly told.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
A promise under seal must assuredly require a different proof from a promise not under seal; but what end is answered by calling one an action of covenant and the other an action of assumpsit?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
The civil suit of trespass on the case has now branched into assumpsit, trover, deceit, negligence, and libel and slander.
From Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. by S. A. Reilly
A surety could be sued in assumpsit, although he had ceased to be liable in debt.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
