Sentence examples for averred in from inspiring English sources

This averred, in somewhat different phraseology, the defenses already stated, and added a new one, namely, want of jurisdiction.

Where the intent is a material ingredient of the crime, it is necessary to be averred; but it may always be averred in general terms, as in a case of assault with intent to kill.

"I am very powerful," he averred in an interview.

(Uggie is "very talented," he averred in a recent interview, though yes, the sausages he kept in his pocket helped).

Missouri lore has it that in 1899, the state's congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver averred in a speech, "Frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me.

The duty which the defendant company owed to the plaintiffs under the facts averred in the complaint arises from the law and not from its contract with the Borough.

The combination to commit an offense against the United States was averred to consist in a conspiracy against the state, and the completed act to have been in pursuance of such conspiracy; but the pleader carefully avoided the direct averment that the purpose of the confederation was the interruption of the course of justice in the United States court.

It was averred that that district is in a densely populated and busy part of the city of Little Rock, and that the stables are conducted in a careless manner, with offensive odors, and so as to be productive of disease.

The stipulated facts showed that the goods were tendered to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and through bills of lading demanded therefor, which were duly issued, as averred, on the dates named in the petition.

In this latter answer or opposition, it is admitted that the attempt was made to electrocute Willie Francis on May 3, 1946, in obedience of the death warrant, but it is averred that, through some latent electrical defect in the apparatus, no electric current reached the body of Willie Francis, and, for that reason, the sentence of death was not carried out.

In example (3), Hunston identifies Sentence [1] as an averred assessment which is supported by the evidence in sentence [2].