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 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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

The cause was for damage to the goods, and the plaintiff sued for a tort, laying an assumpsit by way of inducement to a charge of negligence, as in the days of Henry VI.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Stemming from it is "assumpsit", which provided damages for breach of an oral agreement and for a written agreement without a seal.

From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by Reilly, S. A.