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

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.

In this, as in the earlier case, the issue was taken on the assumpsit.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The court adopted the argument, and said that there was no contract or consideration to ground this action, but that the plaintiff might have sued in assumpsit.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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