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

A promise under seal must assuredly require a different proof from a promise not under seal; but what end is answered by calling one an action of covenant and the other an action of assumpsit?

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

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

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

No basis for a law of contracts was to be found in the power of the tribunals with respect to injuries although our law did make assumpsit out of trespass on the case.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe