Definition of Aver

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Aver
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    To allege; to plead; to state.

  • Aver
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In Fr. To have.
    —Aver et tener. In old conveyancing. To have and to hold.

  • Aver
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    n. In old English and French. Property; substance, estate, and particularly live stock or cattle; hence a working beast; a horse or bullock.
    —Aver com. A rent reserved to religious houses, to be paid by their tenants in com.
    —Aver land. In feudal law. Land plowed by the tenant for the proper use of the lord of the soil.
    —Aver penny. Money paid towards the king's averages or carriages, and so to be freed thereof.
    —Aver silver. A custom or rent formerly so called.

  • Aver
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    v. In pleading. To declare or assert; to set out distinctly and 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.