AVERMENT

In pleading. A positive statement of facts, in opposition to argument or inference. 1 Chit. Pl. 320. In old pleading, An offer to prove a plea, or pleading. The concluding part of a plea, replicat:ion, or other pleading,. containing new affirmative matter, by which the party ofl'ers or declares himself "ready to verify." [s. 115]