AVER SILVER

A custom or rent formerly so called.

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AVER, N

In old English and French. Property; substance, estate, and particularly live stock or cattle; hence a working beast; a horse or bullock.

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AVAILABLE MEANS

This phrase, among mercantile men, is a term well understood to be anything which can readily be converted Into money; but it is not necessarily or primarily money Itself. McFad- den v. Leeka, 48 Ohio St. 513, 28 N. E. 874; Benedict v. Huntington, 32 N. Y. 224; Brig- ham v. Tilliughast, 13 N. Y. 218.

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AVER, V

In pleading. To declare or assert; to set out distinctly and formally; to allege. In old pleading. To avouch or verify. Litt.

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AVERAGE

And see Peters v. Warren Ins. Co., 19 Fed. Cas. 370.

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AVAILABLE TO PROMISE

The inventory that is available for orders. Refer to capacity available to promise.

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AVAILS

Profits, or proceeds. This word seems to have been construed only in reference to wills, and in them it means the corpus or proceeds of the estate after the payment of the debts. 1 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 1039. See Allen v. De Witt, 3 N. Y. 279; McNaughton v. McNaughton, 34 N. Y. 201.

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