Action On The Case
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. actio super casum.] In practice. A species of personal action of very extensive application, otherwise called trespass on the case, or simply case, from the circumstance of the plaintiff's whole case or cause of complaint being set forth at length in the original writ by which formerly it was always commenced.
3 Bl. Com. 122.
See Cau, Trespass on the case. ACTION OF ABSTRACTED MUL-