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
Paine pleaded non assumpsit, and, after gaining the case, paid Wilburn the money.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel
It has been shown above that if a man was a common farrier he could be charged for negligence without an assumpsit.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Furthermore, as there is an historical difference between consideration in debt and in assumpsit, I shall confine myself to the latter, which is the later and more philosophical form.
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
