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****umpsit ("he has undertaken", from Latin, ****umere), or more fully,
action in
****umpsit, was a form of
action at
common law used to
enforce what are...
- quasi-contract can be
traced to the
medieval form of
action known as
indebitatus ****umpsit. In essence, the
plaintiff would recover a
money sum from the defendant...
-
decisions made by the King's
Bench on
****umpsit,
causing friction between the courts. In Slade's Case, a case
under ****umpsit,
which was
brought between judges...
-
common law,
restitutionary claims were
often brought in an
action for
****umpsit and
later in a
claim for
money had and received. The
seminal case giving...
- the
contract and
resort to an
action for a
quantum meruit on an
implied ****umpsit. However, if
there is
absence of any
promised consideration, the plaintiff...
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payment to bind the bargain, and he is
recognizing that the
indebitatus ****umpsit had by that time been
accepted as the
appropriate form of
action in place...
-
first the
consideration requirement was at the
heart of the
action of
****umpsit,
which had
grown up in
medieval times and
remained the
normal action for...
- the plaintiff's
action in
****umpsit. Firstly, he
noted the
objection "That an
Action of Debt
would not lie here and no
****umpsit will lie,
where an Action...
-
aeternus Dei
Filius humanam naturam in
Utero benedictae Virginis Mariae ****umpsit (1614)
Eclogae Chronicae (1615,
published with
Dissertatio **** Nuncio...
- method,
enforced by the
Court of King's Bench,
through the
action of
****umpsit,
which was
technically for deceit. The
legal fiction used was that by...
