Forms of action
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The general designation of the various species or kinds of personal actions known to the common law, such as trover, trespass, debt, assumpsit, etc. These differ in their pleadings and evidence, as well as in the circumstances to which they are respectively applicable.
Truax v. Parvis, 7 Houst. (Del.) 330, 32 Atl. 227.