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Bread made of unbolted wheat flour...
Bread
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 (metropolis), now repealed; and the Bread Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 37), which, by s. 4 (as to which see Cox v. Blaines, (1902) 1 KB 670, explained in Mattinson v. Binley, (1908) 2 KB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....
bread bin
a container used to store breads or cake to keep them fresh...
corn bread
a bread made from corn meal...
Soda bread
a bread made with buttermilk and leavened with baking soda...
Escrow
Escrow, a writing under seal delivered to a third person, to be delivered by him to the person whom it purports to benefit upon some condition. Upon the performance of the condition it becomes an absolute deed; but if the condition be not performed, it never becomes a deed. It is not delivered as a deed, but as an escrow, i.e., a scrowl, or writing which his not to take effect as a deed till the condition be performed, Co. Litt. 36 a; Shep. Touch. P. 58; London Property Co. v. Suffield, (1897) 2 Ch 608. Subject to agreement or instructions, an escrow, if released as operative, takes effect from date of the original execution and delivery, Graham v. Graham, (1791) 1 Ves Jun 274. See DELIVERY OF DEED.A legal document or property delivered by a provision to a third party to be held by the third party for a given amount of time or until the occurrence of a condition at which time the third party is to hand over the document or propertyto the promisee, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5...
Adulteration
Adulteration, the corrupt production of any article, especially food: indictable at common law, see R. v. Dixon, (1814) 3 M&S 11. The adulteration of bread, corn, meal, or flour is made a statutory offence by the Bread Act, 1836, and the (English) Bread Acts (Amendment) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 28), and that of food, including drink, generally by the (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31).By the act the mixing, colouring, staining or powdering of any article so as to render it injurious to health, as to affect injuriously the quality of the drugs or lettering any article in such estate, in punishable for a first offence by a fine not exceeding 50l.; for a second offence by imprison-ment not exceeding six months. The sale to the prejudice of the purchaser of articles of food and drugs not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser, is prohibited. Where however, the article is properly labelled as mixed, no liability arises. Prov...
Hardtack
A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread Called also pilot biscuit pilot bread ship biscuit and ship bread...
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