avowant

English

Noun

avowant (plural avowants)

1. (law) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.
   • 1578, Sir Robert Brooke, New Cases in the Time of Henry VIII:

     the demandant Plaintiff, or avowant, this is peremptory by the same Statute

References

• “avowant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.