ASSONANCE

In Rhetoric and Poetical Composition, a jingle or imperfect rhyme, formed by separate words, or members of a sentence. ASSUMPSIT,or trespa on the case on promises, in law, is an action of an anomalous character, having the form of tort and the substance of contract. It is, properly, a claim of damages sustained through the breach of a simple contract (/. e. a promise not under seal), and alleges that the defendant a umpsit promised or undertook to perform the acts specified. It has become the most ordinary remedy, not only where unliquidated damages, but also where debts are sued for; the law implying a promise to pay or do whatever the defendant is legally liable to pay or do. [s. 110]