assumpsit

She would open her Harvard law class not by introducing herself but by calling on a student and asking what “assumpsit,” a legal term, means.

They include bigly, deplorable, irregardless, icon, assumpsit, faute de mieux, in omnia paratus, revenant and feckless.

He described how on his first day she asked him for the definition of assumpsit and he didn’t know.

He described how on his first day she asked him for the definition of assumpsit and he didn’t know.

Paine pleaded non assumpsit, and, after gaining the case, paid Wilburn the money.