Avowant

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Avowant \A*vow"ant\, n. (Law)
     The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the
     goods, and justifies the taking. --Cowell.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  AVOWANT, practice, pleading. One who makes an avowry.