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Avercorn

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[from Fr. ouvre, or ouvrage, work, according to Somner; or from avoir, to have or receive, according to Cowell.] In old English law. A reserved rent in corn, [grain,] paid to religious houses by their farmers or tenants.

Cowell.

Corn drawn to the lord's granary by the working cattle (averiis) of the tenant. Somner's Lex. cited ibid.