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AVOWRY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a : obsolete : advocacy, patronage, protection b : advocate, patron; especially : patron saint 2. the act of one who avows something.
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Avowry - Wikipedia
In law, avowry is where one takes a distress for rent or other thing, and the other sues replevin. In which case the taker shall justify, in his plea, for what ...
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AVOWRY - The Law Dictionary
Avowry. Definition and Citations: A pleading In the action of replevin, by which the defendant avoivs, that is, acknowledges, the taking of the distress or ...
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avowry
avowry (əˈvaʊrɪ) Forms: 4 avoerie, 4–7 auowrie, avowrie, 5–6 -rye, 5–7 auowry, advowry, 6 advoury, -uowry(e, 6–7 avourie, -ry, 5– avowry. aphet. 4–5 vory. [a. OF. avoerie, avouerie, avourie, avorie, AF. avowerie, f. avoueur, OF. avoeor, n. of agent f. avouer (see avow v.1 and -ry); the office of the...
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AVOWRY Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Avowry definition: a plea by a defendant in an action of replevin who admits taking the distrained goods and shows just cause for the taking.
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avowry, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
OED's earliest evidence for avowry is from 1330, in the writing of Robert Mannyng, poet and historian. avowry is a borrowing from French. Etymons: French ...
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NETBible: Avowry - Bible.org
An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. [1913 Webster]. "Let God alone be our avowry." [1913 Webster] · The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of ...
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avowry - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · (law) The act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods. · (historical) A form of medieval patronage in which colonial ...
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Avowry - Websters Dictionary 1828
AVOW'RY, noun In law, the act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking.
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AVOWRY - Law Dictionary of Legal Terminology
AVOWRY, pleading. An avowry is where the defendant in an action of replevin, avows the taking of the distress in his own right, or in right of his wife, ...
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AVOWRY definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
AVOWRY definition: a plea by a defendant in an action of replevin who admits taking the distrained goods and... | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and ...
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advowry
† adˈvowry Obs. Forms: 5 advourè, 6 -ie. A variant of the word more commonly spelt avowry. The spelling with ad- was especially common in sense 3, ‘The advowson or patronage of a benefice.’1495 Act 11 Hen. VII, xxxiij, The Amobreshippe of the Countie of Meryonneth with the Reglorshippes and Raglorsh...
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voury
† ˈvoury Obs.—1 [a. OF. vowerie, vouerie ‘jurisdiction of a civil or ecclesiastical patron’ (Godefroy): cf. avowry 1.] (See quot.) The privilege was obtained by a payment made to the Earl for his ‘avowry’ or protection.? c 1600 in Cat. Harl. MS. (1808) II. 395/2 Of a Sanctuary-Way called the Vouryes...
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Cestui que vie Act 1540
The words from "and the avowry" to the end of the Act were repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.
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disavowry
† disaˈvowry Obs. [f. disavow v., after avowry and OF. desavouerie, desavowry (in Godef.).] The action of disavowing; disavowal.1588 J. H[arvey] Discoursive Probl. 65 Concerning the generall disauory, and discredit of such speciall matters. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 498 He disclaymeth...
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