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AS: A term used in ancient Rome to refer to a pound weight or a coin weighing a pound, which could be divided into 12 parts called unciae. It was also used to denote interest rates. In Roman and civil law, it referred to a whole inheritance or the entirety of an asset. The plural form of AS is asses.
AS
As is a Latin term that has two meanings:
The examples illustrate how the term "as" was used in Roman law to denote interest rates and in civil law to refer to the entirety of an asset or inheritance.