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  • AVOIDANCE
    A making void, or of no effect; annulling, cancelling; escaping or evading. In English ecclesiastical law. The term describes the condition of a benefice when it has no incumbent. In parliamentary language, avoidance of a decision signifies evading or superseding a question, or escaping the coming to a decision upon More...
  • AVOIRDUPOIS
    The name of a system of weights (sixteen ounces to the pound) used in weighing articles other than medicines, metals, and precious stones.
  • AVOUCHER
    The calling upon a warrantor of lands to fulfill his undertaking.
  • AVOUE'
    In French law. A barrister, advocate, attorney. An officer charged with representing and defending parties before the tribunal to which he is attached. Duverger.
  • AVOW
    In pleading. To acknowledge and justify an act done. To make an avowry. For example, when replevin is brought for a thing distrained, and the party taking claims that he had a right to make the distress, he is said to avow. Newell Mill CP. v. Muxlow, 115 N. Y. More...
  • AVOWANT
    One who makes an avowry.
  • AVOWEE
    In ecclesiastical law. An advocate of a church benefice.
  • AVOWRY
    A pleading in the action of replevin, by which the defendant avows, that is, acknowledges, the taking of the distress or property complained of, where he took it in his own right, and sets forth the reason of it; as for rent in arrear, damage done, etc. 3 Bl. Comm. More...
  • AVOWTERER
    In English law. An adulterer with whom a married woman continues in adultery. Termes de la Ley.
  • AVOWTRY
    In old English law. Adultery. Termes de la Ley.
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