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

Head, /1/ the argument was, that to charge one in assumpsit you must show either his public calling at the time of the delivery, or a special promise on sufficient consideration.

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

Lord Holt was well aware that the use of an assumpsit was not confined to contract.

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