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assumpsit
Word definitions for assumpsit in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) A promise or undertaking, either express or implied, founded on a consideration. 2 (context legal English) An action to recover damages for breach or nonperformance of such a promise.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Assumpsit ("he has undertaken", from Latin , assumere ), or more fully, the action of assumpsit , was a form of action at common law . The origins of the action can be traced to the 14th century, when litigants seeking justice in the royal courts turned ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assumpsit \As*sump"sit\ (?; 215), n. [L., he undertook, pret. of L. assumere. See Assume .] (Law) A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied. An action to recover ...
Usage examples of assumpsit.
Court ruled that its original jurisdiction extended to an action in assumpsit brought by a citizen of South Carolina against the State of Georgia.
His only recourse is an action of debt, or assumpsit, against Allen individually, and as Allen is notoriously insolvent, Wade and his bondsman will have to make up this deficit.
In truth, there were two sets of duties,--one not peculiar to bailees, arising from the assumpsit or public calling of the defendant, as just explained.
Bernard whenever a peculiar responsibility was imposed upon bailees, we find that sometimes an assumpsit was laid as in the early precedents, /2/ or more frequently that the bailee was alleged to be a common bargeman, or common carrier, or the like, without much reference to the special nature of the tort in question.