Tag: Common-law pleading
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Avowry
In pleading. The answer of the defendant in an action of replevin brought to recover property taken in distress, in which he acknowledges the taking, and, setting forth the cause thereof, claims a right in himself or his wife to do so. 4 Bouv. Inst, note 3571 ; 3 Bl. Comm. 149. A […]