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 action of assumpsit lies where a party claims damages for breach of simple contract, i. e. a promise not under seal."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
The civil suit of trespass on the case has now branched into assumpsit, trover, deceit, negligence, and libel and slander.
From Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. by S. A. Reilly
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 Roscoe Pound
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