averment

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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

The only positive averment in the affidavit was unimportant, and, if important, was untrue.

From The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. by Unknown

That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive ?tatement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Lord Cromarty’s averment that it was found in Sprot’s kist was disbelieved. 

From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Lang, Andrew

He cannot pass such a Bill himself, because the mere act of passing it contradicts the averment of the Bill, and shows its provisions to be improper.

From Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of