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Bread. The Acts (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Bread') relating to the sale of bread are the London Bread Act, 1822 (3 Geo. 4, c. cvi.) (metropolis), now repealed; and the Bread Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 37), which, by s. 4 (as to which see Cox v. Blaines, (1902) 1 KB 670, explained in Mattinson v. Binley, (1908) 2 KB 534), prescribes that bread, 'except French, or fancy bread (as to which see Bailey v. Barsby, (1909) 2 KB 610) or rolls,' must be sold by weightm etc.; but the Weights and Measures Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 21), s. 32, makes a request by the purchaser an essence of the offence of refusal to weigh in the case of bread carried out in a cart, See Evans v. Jones, (1909) 99 LT 799; Lyons & Co. v. Houghton, (1915) 1 KB 489.S. 8 of the Act of 1836 enacts that the names, addresses and offences of bakers and others convicted of adulterating bread may be directed by the convicting justices to be published in some newspaper. S. 14 prohibits Sunday baking, and the consents for pro...
Corsned bread
Corsned bread [fr. Corsian, to curse, and snaed, a morsel, A.S.; panis conjuratus, or offa execrata, Lat., the morsel of execration, or ordeal bread]. It was a kind of superstitious trial or ordeal used among the Saxons, to purge themselves of any accusation, by taking a piece of barley bread and eating it with solemn oaths, curses, and excrations, that it might prove poison, or their last morsel, if what they asserted , or denied, were not true. 4 Bl. Com. 345, 414; and see Norton's City of London, 34d Edn. 36, 265....
Assise of bread
Assise of bread, the fixed rate for the sale of bread. Long obsolete....
root
root in the civil law of Louisiana : descendant by roots : per stirpes ...
bread bin
a container used to store breads or cake to keep them fresh...
Cahinca root
The root of an American shrub Chiococca racemosa found as far north as Florida Keys from which cahincic acid is obtained also the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga a celebrated antidote for snake poison...
corn bread
a bread made from corn meal...
Graham bread
Bread made of unbolted wheat flour...
Soda bread
a bread made with buttermilk and leavened with baking soda...
Chay root
The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata native in India which yieds a durable red dyestuff...
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