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

This return was, afterwards, amended, by an averment that, at the time of the service of the writ, Bollman was not in the possession or power of the person to whom it was addressed.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert

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

Mr. Larocque: Will you look at the last averment in your indictment?

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.

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.