averment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: averment	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
averment n a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) Synonym(s): assertion, averment, asseveration
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Averment \Aver"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. Note: In any stage of pleadings, when either party advances new matter, he avers it to be true, by using this form of words: [bd]and this he is ready to verify.[b8] This was formerly called an averment. It modern pleading, it is termed a verification. --Blackstone.