common assumpsit

noun

: a form of action employing the common counts that is used to recover liquidated damages on quasi contracts and was early extended to most cases where an action of debt would lie and later to nearly all cases where there is a money obligation not payable as damages

called also general assumpsit, indebitatus assumpsit

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