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
Lord Holt was well aware that the use of an assumpsit was not confined to contract.
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
Trespass on the case has now branched into assumpsit, trover, deceit, negligence, and libel and slander.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by S. A. Reilly
Stemming from it is "assumpsit", which provided damages for breach of an oral agreement and for a written agreement without a seal.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly
