averment Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
asseveration; assertion.

Cf. OF. averement, LL. averamentum. See Aver, v. t.

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.
Verification; establishment by evidence. Bacon.
(Law) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged. ✍ In any stage of pleadings, when either party advances new matter, he avers it to be true, by using this form of words: "and this he is ready to verify." This was formerly called an averment. It modern pleading, it is termed a verification. Blackstone.