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 more important alternative allegation, the assumpsit, had the effect in the end of introducing the not intrinsically objectionable doctrine that all duties arising from a bailment are founded on contract.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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
Lord Holt was well aware that the use of an assumpsit was not confined to contract.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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 Reilly, S. A.
