indebitatus assumpsit

indebitatus assumpsit
Being indebted, he undertook. A common-law form of action. In its specific sense, that form of assumpsit which is available for the recovery of any simple common-law debt without regard to any express promise to pay the debt; in its enlarged sense, a remedy embracing all cases in which the plaintiff has equity and conscience on his side and the defendant is bound by ties of natural justice and equity to pay the money, even being applied to all the common counts, namely the quantum counts, the money counts, and the count upon an account stated. 1 Am J2d Actions § 13.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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