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Home Dictionary Name: measureFalse weight or measure
False weight or measure, means any weight or measure which does not conform to the standards established by or under this Act in relation to that weight or measure. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(g)]A weight or measure that does not comply with governmentally prescribed standard or with prevailing custom in the place and business in which the weight or measure is used, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 619....
Measure of damage
Measure of damage, the test which determines the amount of damages to the given. The general rule in English law is that in contract the measure of damage is the actual loss to the plaintiff, and in tort the compensation to the plaintiff for the loss or damage which it may be supposed be has suffered directly as a natural consequence of the act complained of. The exception is those ases where vindictive or exemplary damages can be given, e.g., libel, slander, violence, malice, cruelty, or breach of promise of marriage. The actual loss cannot always be recovered, as the whole or a portion of the loss may be too remote to be the natural and probable consequence of that which constitutes the cause of action, and this will most frequently occur in actions of tort. Though unable to prove actual loss, a plaintiff may sometimes be entitled to nominal damages, e.g., breach of an agreement to lend money. In actions of contract, the market-price of the subject-matter at the date the contract is ...
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.)...
Delegation of subsidiary or ancillary measure
Delegation of subsidiary or ancillary measure, when a legislature is given plenary power to legislate on a particular subject there must also be an implied power to make laws incidental to the exercise of such power. It is a fundamental principle of constitutional law that everything necessary to the exercise of a power is included in the grant of the power. A legislature cannot certainly strip itself of its essential functions and vest the same on an extraneous authority. The primary duty of law making has to be discharged by the legislature itself but delegation may be resorted to as a subsidiary or an ancillary measure, Edward Mills Co. v. State of Ajmer, AIR 1955 SC 25 (32) (Constitution of India, Art. 245)....
Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921
Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (English) (11 & 12 Geo. 5 (No. 1)), a measure passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England to amend the law relating to parochial organization of the Church of England. It lays down that the primary duty of Parochial Church Councils is to cooperate with incumbents in the initiation, conduct, and development of church work, both within the parish and outside. Certain powers, duties, and liabilities of the vestry and of the churchwardens are transferred to the Parochial Church Council....
Unverified weight or measure
Unverified weight or measure, means a weight or measure which, being required to be verified and stamped under this Act, has not been so verified and stamped. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(za)]...
Water-measure
Water-measure, a greater measure than the Winchester, formerly used for selling coals in the Pool, etc., 22 Car. 2, c. 11...
Weight or measure
Weight or measure, means a weight or measure specified by or under this Act, and includes a weighing or measuring instrument. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(zd)]...
General Conference on Weights and Measures
General Conference on Weights and Measures, means the Conference General des Poids et Measures established under the Convention due Metre. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(h)]...
Weighing or measuring instrument
Weighing or measuring instrument, means any object, instrument, apparatus or device, or any combination thereof, which is, or is intended to be, used, exclusively or additionally, for the purpose of making any weighment or measurement, and includes any appliance, accessory or part associ-ated with any such object, instrument, apparatus or device. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(zc)]...
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