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

Tho conscience-stricken culprit, being taken by surprise, and almost imagining this a supernatural intimation from heaven, exclaimed, in trembling accents— "But who are you that makes this averment?"

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

The Limitationist, more modest in averment, not having sufficient information to be positive, simply says he does not know.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

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.

There was no occasion to state this, and the averment might be treated as surplusage.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green