Crossword clues for averment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Averment \A*ver"ment\, n. [Cf. OF. averement, LL. averamentum. See Aver, v. t.]
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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. Verification; establishment by evidence.
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(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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion. 2 verification; establishment by evidence. 3 A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
WordNet
n. a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) [syn: assertion, asseveration]
Usage examples of "averment".
No doubt, as has been said above, the averment that the defendant has been guilty of negligence is a complex one: first, that he has done or omitted certain things.
And so long as the controversy is simply on the first half, the whole complex averment is plain matter for the jury without special instructions, just as a question of ownership would be where the only dispute was as to the fact upon which the legal conclusion was founded.
It is an averment of a conclusion of law which is permitted to abridge the facts (positive and negative) on which it is founded.
And among others, to whose ears was wafted the bruit of Gerbino's magnificent prowess and courtesy, was a daughter of the King of Tunis, who, by averment of all that had seen her, was a creature as fair and debonair, and of as great and noble a spirit as Nature ever formed.
He moreover averred, and M'Tavish corroborated his averment by certificate, that he proposed an arrangement to that gentleman, by which the furs were to be sent to Canton, and sold there at Mr.
Without stopping to qualify the averment, the Old World has had the poems of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which have been great.
Tradition—which sometimes brings down truth that history has let slip, but is oftener the wild babble of the time, such as was formerly spoken at the fireside, and now congeals in newspapers—tradition is responsible for all contrary averments.