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..... and upon the further assumption that engagements to pay coined dollars may be regarded as ordinary contracts to pay money rather than as contracts to deliver certain weights of standard gold, it can be maintained that a contract to pay coined money may be satisfied by a tender of united states notes. is this a performance of ..... eagle should be two hundred and fifty-eight grains, and in the half-eagle and quarter-eagle, respectively, one-half and one-quarter of that weight precisely; and that the weight of standard silver should be in the dollar four hundred twelve and a half grains, and in the half-dollar, quarter-dollar, dimes, and half-dimes, exactly ..... treasurer, and by the treasurer to depositors, was still further narrowed. with these and other precautions against the emission of any piece inferior in weight or purity to the prescribed standard, it was thought safe to make the gold and silver coins of the united states legal tender in all payments according to their nominal or declared .....
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..... to the materials of which it is made, or when the percentage of crude fiber is above or the percentage of crude fat or crude protein below the standards adopted for concentrated commercial feeding stuffs. the state chemist is further empowered to refuse to issue stamps or labels to any manufacturer, importer, dealer, agent, or ..... hydrate, or acetanilid, or any derivative or preparation of any of such substances contained therein." "third. if in package form, and the contents are stated in terms of weight or measure, they are not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of the package." "fourth. if the package containing it or its label shall bear any statement, ..... of public concern, it is within the protective power of the state to intervene. laws providing for the inspection and grading of flour, the inspection and regulation of weights and measures, the weighing of coal on public scales, and the like, are all competent exercises of that power, and it is not perceived why the prevention .....
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..... ) not a burden on interstate commerce as applied to grain received from or shipped to points without the state; (3) not superseded by or in conflict with the federal grain standards act (august 11, 1916, c. 313, 39 stat. 482, part b). pp. 248 u. s. 367 -369. 269 mo. 346 affirmed. page 248 u. s ..... ; and, by 63 (p. 372) thereof, prohibits under severe penalties "any person, corporation, or association other than a duly authorized and bonded state weigher to issue any weight certificate [for any] again weighed at any warehouse or elevator in this state where duly appointed and qualified state weighers are stationed, . . . or to make any charge ..... and elevators in compliance with the act, and that the respondent in violation thereof and in abuse of its corporate franchise maintains a bureau for weighing grain, grants weight certificates, and makes charges therefor. the prayer is that respondent be adjudged guilty of these practices and that a fine be imposed. the return admitted substantially the .....
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..... scales must be equipped with a device which will automatically compensate for changes of temperature at zero balance and throughout the whole range of weight graduations." the standard company manufactures a combination spring and lever computing scale which was then being used and sold in new york. it is equipped with a ..... character. the general business law, substantially as enacted in 1909, provided by 11 that: "the state superintendent of weights and measures shall take charge of the standards adopted by this article as the standards of the state, cause them to be kept in a fireproof building belonging to the state, from which they shall ..... [ footnote 3 ] "he shall, upon the written request of any citizen, firm, corporation, or educational institution of the state, test or calibrate weights, measures, weighing or measuring devices, and instruments or apparatus used as standards in the state. he, or his deputies or inspectors by his direction, shall at least once annually test all scales .....
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..... business. this conclusion renders it unnecessary to consider whether the provisions of the state act are in contravention of the regulations provided in the federal grain standards act, as was held by the circuit court of appeals. the decree of the circuit court of appeals is affirmed. * "authority is given to ..... and burden upon interstate commerce, and therefore violates the commerce clause of the federal constitution; second, that the state statute is in conflict with the federal grain standards act of august 11, 1916, c. 313, 39 stats. 482, 485. upon filing its bill, complainant moved for a temporary injunction, which application was ..... licensed to inspect, grade and weigh may buy grain before it has been officially inspected. the standards of quality and condition established by the secretary of agriculture were adopted under regulations issued by the state inspector of grades, weights and measures, and all state inspectors (including licensed buyers) were required to observe those grades .....
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..... bread to restrictions which are essentially unreasonable and arbitrary, and is therefore repugnant to the fourteenth amendment. judgment reversed. [ footnote 1 ] "an act establishing a standard weight loaf of bread for the state of nebraska and providing a penalty. . . ." "section 1. department of agriculture to enforce. it shall be the duty ..... a price which, despite the extraordinary and oftentimes exasperating circumstances, made bread still the cheapest and best food on the american table. . . . this standard weight insisted upon by the food administration is one of the regulations referred to as having been found so advantageous by the majority of bakers that, in a ..... in regard to the enforcement of bread legislation, including tolerances, are offered as a result of 5 years' successful enforcement of a standard-weight bread law. the law itself provides that the standard weights of all loaves of bread within 12 hours after baking shall be 16 ounces . . . or multiples of the 16-ounce size .....
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..... of the united states on the grounds, first, that it interferes with and burdens interstate commerce, and secondly that it conflicts with the united states grain standards act, c. 313, 39 stat. 482. an injunction preventing its enforcement pending the suit was granted by the district court, three judges sitting, and ..... of profit, confiscation of valuable dockage, fraud and other unlawful practices;" declares that whenever grades, weights, and measures for wheat are established by the secretary of agriculture under the united states grain standards act, they shall become the grades, weights, and measures of page 268 u. s. 197 the state, and concludes by saying: " ..... in establishing such grades, weights, and measures, the value of dockage shall be considered, and the buyer shall .....
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..... on february 1, 1930." the coupon in suit, for $22.50, was payable on february 1, 1934. the complaint alleged that, on february 1, 1930, the standard weight and fineness of a gold dollar of the united states as a unit of value "was fixed to consist of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of gold, nine-tenths ..... heretofore or hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues, except that gold coins, when below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law for the single piece, shall be legal tender only at valuation in proportion to their actual ..... , to borrow money, to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standards of weights and measures, and the added express power "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution" the other enumerated powers. juilliard v. greenman, .....
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..... hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues, except that gold coins, when below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law for the single piece, shall be legal tender only at valuation in proportion to their actual ..... to borrow money, to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standards of weights and measures, and the added express power 'to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution' the other enumerated powers. [ footnote 10 ]" ..... mortgage, which were sold in this country for dollars in 1912, were expressed to be payable here in gold coin of the united states equal to the then standard of weight and fineness or, at the option of the holder, to be payable in several foreign countries, including holland, in specified amounts of the moneys there current, which .....
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..... grading, weighing, and purchase of eggs, butter, and cheese; by utilizing various schemes to circumvent and avoid the standards, grades, weights, and specifications to which the orders were subject, and by misrepresenting the grade, weight, and price of eggs, butter, and cheese. the fact that certain types of fraudulent practices occurred during one period, ..... did submit the substantive counts to the jury on a legally proper exposition of that theory, and the jury apparently found that the evidence fulfilled the standards established. but the defendant challenges the jury's right so to find; he insists that the evidence is insufficient to establish his responsibility as an aider ..... the necessary connection to exist. the importance of these requirements lies in this: only when a jury has been properly instructed as to the relevant standards to be applied to the evidence does a basis exist for determining whether evidence sufficient to support the verdict was presented to it. see bollenbach v .....
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