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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

[L. Lat. averagium, from avera, or averia, qq. v.] In old English law. A service by horse or carriage, anciently due by a tenant to his lord. Cowell. A labor or service performed with working cattle, (opus quod averiis perficitur,) horses or oxen, or with wagons and carriages. Spelman, voc. Avera.