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
Brown, 3 Q.B.511, 526, the reader the primitive assumpsit, which was the inducement to a declaration in tort, interpreted as meaning contract in the modern sense.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The chief reason why debt was supplanted for centuries by a later remedy, assumpsit, was the survival of this relic of early days.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
A surety could be sued in assumpsit, although he had ceased to be liable in debt.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The court adopted the argument, and said that there was no contract or consideration to ground this action, but that the plaintiff might have sued in assumpsit.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
