Aver

In Fr. To have.

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

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.