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Aver-silver, a customary rent; see Cowel's Law Dict....
aver
aver averred aver·ring : to assert or declare positively esp. in a pleading : allege [not necessary to the capacity of a party to sue "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 9(a)"] NOTE: Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(e)(1) requires that averments in a pleading be “simple, concise, and direct,” and states that “no technical forms of pleading or motions are required.” aver·ment n ...
negative averment
negative averment : a negative statement or allegation (as in a pleading) that constitutes a statement of fact and that must be proved by the party making it [a negative averment alleging that the plaintiff did not have the capacity to sue] ...
Aver
Aver (to) [fr. averer, Fr.; fr. verus, Lat.], to maintain at true....
Averment
Averment [fr. verificatio, Lat.], an advancement or affirmation of any matter in a pleading, and when new matter was introduced the pleading con-cluded with a verification except in the anomalous case of the general plea of bankruptcy under the repealed 6 Geo. 4, c. 16. Verifications or averments were of two kinds: common and special. Common were applied to ordinary cases, and were in the following form:- 'And this the plaintiff (or defendant) is ready to verify.' Special were used where the matter pleaded was intended to be tried by record or by some other method than a jury. They were in the following forms:- 'And this the plaintiff (or defendant) is ready to verify, by the said record,' or And this the plantiff (or defendant) in ready to verify, when, where, and in such manner as the Court here shall order, direct, or appoint.'...
Silver certificate
A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount payable to the bearer on demand In the United States and its possessions it is issued against the deposit of silver coin and is not legal tender but is receivable for customs taxes and all public dues In the United States the redeemability in silver of silver certificates was discontinued in the 1970s they are still 1997 accepted as money at the face dollar value but cannot be redeemed in silver...
Aver-corn
Aver-corn, a reserved rent in corn paid to religious houses, Cowel...
Aver-land
Aver-land, that which tenants ploughed and manured for the proper use of a monastery or the lords of the soil, Cowel....
Aver-penny or average penny
Aver-penny or average penny, money paid towards the king's averages or carriages, and so to be freed thereof, Cowel....
Avers
Avers, draught cattle; cart-horses....
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