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

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

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

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.

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