AVER

L Fr. To have. -Aver et tener, In old conveyancing. To have and to hold. AVER,,v, In pleading. To declare or a ert; to set out distinctly aIJ,d formally; to allege. In old pleading. To avouch or verify. Litt. § 691; Co. Litt. 362b. To make or prove true; to make good or justify a plea. A VER, n. In old English and French. Property; substance, estate, and particularly live stock or cattle; hence a working beast; a horse or bullock.. -Aver corn. A rent reserved to religious houses, to be paid by their tenants in corn. -Aver land, In feudal law. Land plowed by ·the tenant for the proper use of the lord of the soil-Aver.penn::,. Money paid towards the king's averages or carriages, and so to be freed:thereof.-Aver Bilver, A custom or rent,formerly so called. [s. 114]