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 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
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
