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  • The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.
  • Verification; establishment by evidence.
  • A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia



A*ver"ment (&?;), n. [Cf. OF. averement, LL. averamentum. See Aver, v. t.] 1. The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.

Signally has this averment received illustration in the course of recent events.
I. Taylor.

2. Verification; establishment by evidence. Bacon.

3. (Law) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

&fist; In any stage of pleadings, when either party advances new matter, he avers it to be true, by using this form of words: "and this he is ready to verify." This was formerly called an averment. It modern pleading, it is termed a verification. Blackstone.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



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