avowant

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noun

The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.

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Meanings

nounavowant (plural avowants)

plural avowants

  1. lawThe defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.

    the demandant Plaintiff, or avowant, this is peremptory by the same Statute

    1578, Sir Robert Brooke, New Cases in the Time of Henry VIII
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Chicago

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