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 theory the same in assumpsit, /4/ and in equity.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The suits consisted of actions of tort and assumpsit.

From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by Nicolay, John George

No basis for a law of contracts was to be found in the power of the tribunals with respect to injuries although our law did make assumpsit out of trespass on the case.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe