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Definition: ASSUMPSIT |
ASSUMPSITNoun1. An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking. 2. 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. |
Etymology: Assumpsit \As*sump"sit\, noun. [Latin expression, he undertook, pret. of Latin assumere. See Assume.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: ASSUMPSIT |
| English words defined with "ASSUMPSIT": Non assumpsit. (references) |
| "ASSUMPSIT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "ASSUMPSIT" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.33% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ASSUMPSIT": action of assumpsit ♦ non assumpsit. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
assumpsit | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ASSUMPSIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | ação judicial de restituição (action of assumpsit). (various references) | |
Russian | устный обязательство. (various references) | |
Thai | ข้อแก้ตัว (non assumpsit, tale of woe). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ASSUMPSIT": assumpsits. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ASSUMPSIT" (pronounced 'As*sump"sit'): Musit, Prosit. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-p-s-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: autisms. | |
-3 letters: assist, autism, maists, missus, passim, passus, pastis, situps, spaits, spasms, stamps, stasis, stumps, stupas, tussis. | |
-4 letters: amiss, apsis, aspis, maist, masts, mauts, mists, musts, pasts, pimas, pitas, pumas, samps, satis, simas, simps, situp, situs, smuts, spait, spams, spasm, spats, spits, sputa, stamp, stump, stums, stupa, suits, sumps, tamis, tamps, tapis, tumps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-p-s-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: assumpsits, potassiums. | |
+2 letters: assumptions. | |
+3 letters: supremacists, suprematisms, suprematists. | |
+4 letters: misassumption, reassumptions, spiritualisms. | |
+5 letters: misassumptions. | |
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