assumpsit

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She would open her Harvard law class not by introducing herself but by calling on a student and asking what “assumpsit,” a legal term, means.

From Seattle Times

They include bigly, deplorable, irregardless, icon, assumpsit, faute de mieux, in omnia paratus, revenant and feckless.

From Seattle Times

Paine pleaded non assumpsit, and, after gaining the case, paid Wilburn the money.

From Project Gutenberg

Stemming from it is "assumpsit", which provided damages for breach of an oral agreement and for a written agreement without a seal.

From Project Gutenberg

He used to say sometimes to his conducting man, with a smile, sly and holy, up at the yellow letters of one of the tin deed-boxes on his shelves at the Lodge, after an adroit conversation, "I think it will puzzle him, rather, to make an assumpsit out of that."

From Project Gutenberg