AVOWRY
avowry (<<schwa>>-vow-ree), n. Common-law pleading. An acknowledgment — in an
answer to a replevin action — that one has taken property, and a justification for that taking <the
defendant’s avowry was based on alleged damage to the property by the plaintiff>. Cf.
COGNIZANCE(4). [Cases: Replevin 64.] — avow,vb.[Blacks Law 8th]