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noun

Averment n.

The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion. "Signally has this averment received illustration in the course of recent events."

Verification; establishment by evidence.

(Law) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged. Note: In any stage of pleadings, when either party advances new matter, he avers it to be true, by using this form of words: "and this he is ready to verify." This was formerly called an averment. It modern pleading, it is termed a verification.

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"Averment" Quotes from Famous Books

... This last averment was a slight alteration in point of fact, for Madge Wildfire was not expected to survive the treatment she had received; but Jeanie seemed so much agitated, that Mr. Archibald did not think it prudent to tell her the worst at once. Indeed, she appeared so fluttered and ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... from the merchant or importer of slaves—and of what nature? Does it set forth any title of propriety, agreeable to the laws of England (or even to the laws of nations) to be in the importer more than what depends upon his simple averment? And have not free Negroes been at sundry times trepanned by such dealers, and been brought contrary to the laws of nations, and sold here as slaves?"—"There is no doubt, (observed a third,) but such ...

— Thoughts On The Necessity Of Improving The Condition Of The Slaves • Thomas Clarkson

... "Coke" and "Cowper" (Vols. iv. and v. passim; Vol. vi., p. 16.).—So much, and so well to the purpose, has already been said in "N. & Q.," in support of the averment that the former of these names was originally pronounced Cook, that it may appear needless to adduce additional evidence; still, considering the source from which the testimony I am now bringing forward is derived, I think I may stand excused for recurring to the subject. It is from the ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 • Various

... which he had brought as ambassador] and Gietterowane committing to memory what he said."] So effective was this provision of their constitution that for more than three centuries this main cause of Indian wars was rendered innocuous, and the "Great Peace" remained undisturbed. This proud averment of their annalists, confirmed as it is for more than half the period by the evidence of their white neighbors, cannot reasonably be questioned. What nation or confederacy of civilized Europe can show an exemption from domestic strife for ...

— The Iroquois Book of Rites • Horatio Hale

Words linked to "Averment" : aver, declaration, accusation, avouchment, ipsedixitism, contention, asseveration, ipse dixit, testimony, charge, claim, denial, affirmation, assertion