| 释义 |
‖ non assumpsit Law.|nɒn əˈsʌmpsɪt|
[L. = ‘he did not undertake’.]
A plea in an action of assumpsit by which the defendant denies that he made any promise or undertaking.
1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 78 That the plaintiff had brought an action of the case against Rickby, the defendant, and upon non assumpsit. 1678W. Brown Entring Clerk's Vade Mecum 108 marg., As to the first, second, and third promises the Defendant pleads Non assumpsit. 1768Blackstone Comm. II. xx. 305. 1824 Stephen Pleading 175 In Trespass on the case (in the species of assumpsit), the general issue is called the plea of non assumpsit. |