averment
Example Sentences
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Unless and until Utah impeaches his credibility, that averment is accepted by us descendants of the man.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the only material averment in the declaration.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
To aver that his ancestors were sold as slaves, is not equivalent, in point of law, to an averment that he was a slave.
From 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 December Term, 1856. by Howard, Benjamin C.
Sabine says the truth of this averment may be doubted.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
The only positive averment in the affidavit was unimportant, and, if important, was untrue.
