averment

NOUN
  1. a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
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How To Use averment In A Sentence

  • Section 144 of the Excise Act, in fact, says that you can rely on an averment to establish a fact, even if it is the ultimate fact, and that has been done in many cases.
  • That is a positive averment or is concealment when one is under a duty to disclose; Siegelman's Judge Committed Fraud on the Court
  • Technical difficulties without number also exist: the most literal accuracy, which is indispensable -- the artful inuendoes, the artistical averments, which are necessary, correctly to shape the charge ere it is submitted to the grand jury, may be well conceived to involve many niceties and refinements, on which the case may easily be wrecked. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
  • An averment that the blockade was lawful is likely to get short shrift in any Court potentially having jurisdiction other than in Israel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
  • A major aspect of the application is whether the averments in the statements of case are true, an issue on which hearsay evidence is admissible in the action itself.
  • In this case the averment of the fact of manufacture meant that there was prima facie evidence of that fact before the court.
  • The authority acted unreasonably making the averment that the proposal would place pressure on greenfield sites elsewhere in the national park.
  • The Petitioners have advanced a number of Prayers based on these general and specific allegations and averments as outlined in Paragraph 5.
  • This last averment was a slight alteration in point of fact, for The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Once again, the affidavits submitted in all these cases recite the averment that Plaintiff is the owner of the Note and Mortgage, without any mention of an assignment or trust or successor interest. Peter G. Miller: The Real Foreclosure Crisis: Who Owns the Mortgages?
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