non assumpsitn.

1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 78 That the plaintiff had brought an action of the case against Rickby, the defendant, and upon non assumpsit.

1678 W. Brown Entring Clerk's Vade Mecum 108 (margin) As to the first, second, and third promises the Defendant pleads Non assumpsit.

1760 G. Gilbert Cases Law & Equity 51 Thus in the Case of Infancy, which may be given in Evidence upon Non assumpsit [etc.].

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xx. 305 As in trespass..not guilty; in debt upon contract, nil debet, he owes nothing..; or an assumpsit, non assumpsit, he made no such promise.

1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 966 The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit as to all except 3l., and as to that a tender.

1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes i. 24 Although they have experienced much affliction under the issue of ‘non assumpsit’, never was there one who suffered judgment upon the finding of a jury on the plea of ‘not guilty’.

1869 T. Parsons Laws of Business for All States of Union 22 The plaintiff must prove marriage, in assumpsit against both on a note of wife before marriage, when non-assumpsit is pleaded.

1923 B. J. Shipman Handbk. Common-Law Pleading (ed. 3) §182 ‘Non assumpsit’..is in effect a formal denial of liability on the promise or contract alleged.

1974 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 59 116 The defendant entered a general demurrer to each count of the declaration and pleaded non-assumpsit.