Sentences with word «averment»

«All other averments relating to fraudulent activities against the applicant remain largely in the realm of imagination of the respondent and unproved as there is no such document before the court.

The judge held, «The applicant made averments and exhibited documents which have not been contradicted by the respondent in the form of a counter-affidavit.

(Application to strike out averment of constructive notice in Etridge defence; application successfully opposed by Marc Beaumont).

These averments are, therefore, by law deemed admitted.

Defendants (Catherine and Seth Afeku) in their pleadings, however, denied all the allegations saying the averments of the plaintiffs were a total and complete distortion of the dealings and transaction that transpired between the parties.

It is an averment of the aridity of ideological exactitude of its political leadership.

On its part, the Coalition of Northern Groups supported the President's averment that Nigerians were free to live anywhere they desired.

The court further noted that the failure of the applicant to controvert an averment contained in the counter-affidavit of the EFCC regarding her refusal to honour its invitation was fatal to her case.

Rather, it complained in various ways about the judge's weighing of the evidence and his finding that it did not prove the averments alleged — a task that falls squarely within the trial judge's role as the trier of fact.