ARVIL-SUPPER

A feast or entertain• ment made at a funeral in the north of England; arvll bread, is bread delivered to the poor at funeral solemnities, and arvil, arval, or arfal, the burial or funeral rites. Cowell. AS. Lat. In the Roman and civil law. A pound weight; and a coin originally weighIng a pound, (called also "libra;") divided into twelve pl).rts, called "uncim." Any integral sum, subject to division in certain proportions. Frequently applied In the civil law to inheritances; the whole inheritance being termed "as," and its several proportionate parts."sextans," "quadrans," etc. Burrill. The term "as," and the multiples of its uncim, were also used to denote the rates of interest. 2 BI. Comm. 462, note m. AS AGAINST; [s. 98]