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Averment
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What's The Definition Of Averment?
[n] a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Averment: assertion | asseveration Related Terms | Find terms related to Averment: See Also | accusation | affirmation | avouchment | avowal | charge | claim | contention | declaration | denial | ipse dixit | ipsedixitism | testimony Averment In Webster's Dictionary \A*ver"ment\, n. [Cf. OF. averement, LL. averamentum.
See {Aver}, v. t.]
1. The act of averring, or that which is averred;
affirmation; positive assertion.
Signally has this averment received illustration in
the course of recent events. --I. Taylor.
2. Verification; establishment by evidence. --Bacon.
3. (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. --Blackstone.
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