Havior

Mr. Halliwell gives the words *haver* and *havering*, in the same sense as *havior*. Are not these words identical with *aver*, *averium*, in the sense of cattle, tame beasts? *Averium*, from the old French, *aveir*, i.e. *avoir*, originally meant any personal property; but like *catalla*, chattels, it came to signify more particularly the most important part of a peasant's possessions—namely, his live stock. Thus, in the laws of William the Conqueror (Thorpe's *Ancient Laws*, vol. ii. p. 469.), we find:— "Si præpositus hundredi equos aut boves aut oves aut porcos vel cujuscumque generis averi…