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
There is no averment in this plea which shows or conduces to show an inability in the plaintiff to sue in the Circuit Court.
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.
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.
The untrue averment that the committee of council have refused to contribute to the support of schools not adopting the management clauses is in proper keeping with these equivocations.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
The only positive averment in the affidavit was unimportant, and, if important, was untrue.
