Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

money count

Hist. A count, usu. founded on a simple contract, giving rise to a claim for payment of money. "Simple contracts, express or implied, resulting in mere debts, are of so frequent occurrence as causes of action, that certain concise forms of counts were devised for suing upon them. These are called the indebitatus' or money counts.'" 2 Stewart Rapalje & Robert L. Lawrence, A Dictionary o/ American and English Law 833 (1883).