Avow
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
To acknowledge the commission of an act, and claim that it was done with right.
3 Bl. Comm. 150.
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. See Fleta, lib.
1, c. 4, § 4; Ciwiningham.
See "Avowry;" "Justification."