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Pennyweight

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A troy weight containing twenty four grains or the twentieth part of a troy ounce 1555 grams as a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic It is abbreviated dwt or pwt It was anciently the weight of a silver penny whence the name

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