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 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

The civil suit of trespass on the case has now branched into assumpsit, trover, deceit, negligence, and libel and slander.

From Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. by Reilly, S. A.

"The action of assumpsit lies where a party claims damages for breach of simple contract, i. e. a promise not under seal."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Primo, quia Sponsam Christ! fraudulenter assumpsit de manu simplicis Pastoris.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various