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- noun Plural form of
averment .
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Examples
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Plaintiffs incorporate the allegations and averments contained in paragraphs 5 through 90 as if set forth fully herein.
Washington Mutual files suit against FDIC, alleges deal with Chase violated its rights 2009
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If a leinholder is on the title, even the lienholders has 20 days to file an answer setting forth their security interest along with averments that they had no knowledge the vehicle would be used to commit any offense.
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The People could not both refuse to disclose the informant's identity, or at least some facts showing a basis for the informant's knowledge the police relied upon to establish probable cause for the arrest, and insist that defendant's averments in his pleadings were insufficient to obtain a Mapp/Dunaway hearing [FN2].
NY Court of Appeals 2007
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The People could not both refuse to disclose the informant's identity, or at least some facts showing a basis for the informant's knowledge the police relied upon to establish probable cause for the arrest, and insist that defendant's averments in his pleadings were insufficient to obtain a Mapp/Dunaway hearing [FN2].
Criminal Law 2007
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Or the record to reflect that he wanted impeachment after four-and-a-half hours of reading into the record his averments.
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(T) he averments of a lay plaintiff cannot serve as the essential showing of the merit ... where, as here, the averments include matters not within the ordinary experience and knowledge of laypersons.
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“I must to my sister instantly, and demand of her if there be any real foundation for these wonderful averments.”
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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"It (the judgment) carefully considered the circumstances. and decided that there appeared to be merit in the respondent's (Zuma's) averments of political interference in his prosecution."
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"There is and was little doubt that the President was fully aware of these averments involving him and his conduct as part of the anti-Zuma movement which affected Mr Zuma's prosecution and the manner thereof."
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Do they have a prurient interest in the averments of someone with a history of mental health problems?
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