Special Assumpsit
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
An action of assumpsit brought on a special contract, which the plaintiff declares upon, It is distinguished from a general assumpsit, where the plaintiff, instead ot setting out the particular language or effect of the original contract, declares as for a debt arising out of the execution of the contract, where that constitutes the debt.
3 Bouv. Inst, note 3426.