Measure

Measure [fr. mensura, Lat.], that by which anything is measured; the rule by which anything is adjusted or proportioned. See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES and DISTANCE. s. 13 (1) of the Weights and Measures Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that the denomination of a length measure must be stamped upon it, s. 28 of the Act of 1878 having already prescribed the stamping upon a measure of capacity. The 25th chapter of Magna Charta prescribes one measure of wine, ale, and corn 'though our realm.'Also an enactment of the National Assembly of the Church of England (q.v.)