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Webster 1913 Edition
Averment
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.
☞ 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Averment
AVER'MENT
,Noun.
1.
Affirmation; positive assertion; the act of averring.2.
Verification; establishment by evidence.3.
In pleading, an offer of either party to justify or prove what he alleges. In any stage of pleadings, when either party advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and concludes with these words, 'and this he is ready to verify.' This is called an averment.Definition 2024
averment
averment
English
Noun
averment (plural averments)
- The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,
- And for some of these averments, he added, substantiating proof was not far.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,
- verification; establishment by evidence.
- A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
Synonyms
- (act of averring): affirmation, asseveration, assertion, declaration