averment

Historical Examples

• The latter case shows the averment of negligence to have been mere form.

  The Common Law

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• And the oath prescribed for them on returning was explicitly an averment of truth.

  The Ordinance of Covenanting

  John Cunningham

• I must take exception, for instance, to his averment “that what we respect and admire,” viz.

  Tradition

  John Francis Arundell

• There is no averment in this plea which shows or conduces to show an inability in the plaintiff to sue in the Circuit Court.

  Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford

  Benjamin C. Howard

• To aver that his ancestors were sold as slaves, is not equivalent, in point of law, to an averment that he was a slave.

  Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford

  Benjamin C. Howard