assumpsit
Americannoun
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a legal action for a breach of contract or promise not under seal.
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an actionable promise.
noun
Etymology
Origin of assumpsit
1605–15; < Latin: he has taken upon himself, he has undertaken
Example Sentences
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She would open her Harvard law class not by introducing herself but by calling on a student and asking what “assumpsit,” a legal term, means.
From Seattle Times
They include bigly, deplorable, irregardless, icon, assumpsit, faute de mieux, in omnia paratus, revenant and feckless.
From Seattle Times
Paine pleaded non assumpsit, and, after gaining the case, paid Wilburn the money.
From Project Gutenberg
Stemming from it is "assumpsit", which provided damages for breach of an oral agreement and for a written agreement without a seal.
From Project Gutenberg
He used to say sometimes to his conducting man, with a smile, sly and holy, up at the yellow letters of one of the tin deed-boxes on his shelves at the Lodge, after an adroit conversation, "I think it will puzzle him, rather, to make an assumpsit out of that."
From Project Gutenberg
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