Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-VOW'RY
A-VOW'RY, n.
In law, the act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking; the act of maintaining the right to distrain, by the distrainer, or defendant in replevin. – Blackstone.
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