Averment

Averment definition:
Pleadings; official allegations of fact made by a party to a lawsuit.

Averment An assertion or affirmation of fact, especially a positive declaration or allegation in a legal pleading. For instance, "the plaintiff
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Averments were formerly divided into immaterial and impertinent; but these terms are now treated as synonymous.

Averment. French averer, to affirm as true: Latin ad, to; verum, truth. A positive statement of the truth of a fact; a formal allegation in pleading.

AVERMENT: A statement of facts in a legal pleading.
B.C.A.: Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Averment - Something alleged or asserted in a pleading. See also ALLEGATION.

A vinculo matrimonii Latin: of marriage. The term is now used to refer to a final and permanent divorce.

NOTICE, AVERMENT OF, in pleading. This is frequently necessary, particularly in special actions of assumpsit.

The defendant then delivered his statement of defence, in which he was to say whether he admitted or denied the plaintiff's facts (every averment not traversed being taken to be admitted), ...

KNOWINGLY
pleadings. The word knowingly," or "well knowing," will supply the place of a positive averment in an indictment or declaration, that the defendant knew the... more ...

A public statement: announcement, annunciation, edict, manifesto, notice, proclamation, pronouncement. See knowledge/ignorance.
The act of asserting positively: affirmation, allegation, assertion, asseveration, averment, claim, statement.

See also: Law, State, Pleading, Cause, Will