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

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

It is inscribed Pater meus et fratres mei dereliquerunt me; Dominus autem assumpsit me!—“My father and my brothers abandoned me; but the Lord took me under his protection.”

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

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

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

"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