Law Dictionary Definitions

avowtry. See ADULTERY.[Blacks Law 8th]

avowter.Hist.  An  adulterer.  •  The  crime  was  called  avowtry.  —  Also  spelled  advouterer; avowterer; avouter; advowter.[Blacks Law 8th]

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]

avowee. See ADVOCATUS.[Blacks Law 8th]

avowant  (<<schwa>>-vow-<<schwa>>nt),  n.  A  person  who  makes  avowry  in  an  action  of replevin.[Blacks Law 8th]

avowal (<<schwa>>-vow-<<schwa>>l), n.1. An open declaration. 2.OFFER OF PROOF . — avow,vb.[Blacks Law 8th]

avoutry. See ADULTERY.[Blacks Law 8th]

avoucher (<<schwa>>-vow-ch<<schwa>>r).Hist. A tenant’s calling upon a warrantor of title to the land to help the tenant defend the title.[Blacks Law 8th]

avoision  (<<schwa>>-voy-zh<<schwa>>n),  n.  An  ambiguous  act  that  falls  between  legal avoidance and illegal evasion of the law. • The term, coined by Arthur Seldon, an economist, is a blend of evasion and avoidance. Avoision usu. refers to financial acts that are not clearly legal tax avoidance or illegal tax evasion, but it sometimes appears in…

avoiding power.See POWER(5).[Blacks Law 8th]