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

Not even Mr. Smith, the claimant himself, makes a direct averment that he was ordained by his father to succeed him as prophet and President of the church.

From Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Roberts, B. H.

His averment to this effect does not allow the supposition that he could have deceived himself, on such a point.

From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth

The reports of the Supreme Court of Missouri show that this assumption has many exceptions; and there is no averment in the plea that the plaintiff is not within them.

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.