Legal Definition and Related Resources of Avow

Meaning of Avow

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.”

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Synonyms of Avow

verb

acknowledge
admit
admit frankly
affirm
allege as a fact
articulate
assert
assert on oath
assert peremptorily
assert under oath
asseverate
attest
authenticate
aver
avouch
be bound
bear witness
certify
commit oneself
confess
confirm
confiteri
contend
declare
declare openly
declare positively
declare the truth of
depose
enunciate
express
fateri
formulate
maintain
make a statement
make an assertion
postulate
predicate
proclaim
profess
profiteri
pronounce
propound
protest
set down
speak
state
state as true
state with conviction
swear
take one’s oath
testify
vouch
vow
witness
Associated Concepts: affidavit
testimony

Avow in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

Latin Ad-vovere, to vow to: ad-vocare. To declare openly; to acknowledge and justify an act; opposed to disavow.

Note: This legal definition of Avow in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

English Spanish Translation of Avow

Reconocer, Confesar, Admitir

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Avow in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of avow.

Grammar

This term is a verb.

Etimology of Avow

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c. 1300, “uphold, support, approve; stand by, back up (someone); declare openly, take sides openly, affirm;” mid-14c. “admit openly,” from Anglo-French avouer, Old French avoer “acknowledge, accept, recognize,” especially as a protector (12c., Modern French avouer), from Latin advocare “to call, summon, invite” (see advocate; this term is also a noun.). A synonym of avouch (q.v.), which tends to contain the more technical, legal aspect of the word. Related: Avowed; avowing.

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