assumpsit
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From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2016
The more important alternative allegation, the assumpsit, had the effect in the end of introducing the not intrinsically objectionable doctrine that all duties arising from a bailment are founded on contract.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
In this, as in the earlier case, the issue was taken on the assumpsit.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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
But this does not belong to the class of cases to be considered, for the problem before us is to trace the origin of assumpsit, which is an action of contract.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell