AVOW

In pleading. To e:cknowledge and justify an act done. To make an avowry. For example, when replevin is brought for a thing distrained, H and the party taking claims that he had a right to make the distre , he is said to avow. Newell Mill Co. v. Muxlow, 115 N. Y. -i10, 21_ N. E. 1048. [s. 115]