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Market, Court of the Clerk of the. The court of the clerk of the market was incident to every fair and market in the kingdom, to punish misdemeanours therein; as a Court of piepoudre was to determine all disputes relating to private or civil property. The object of this jurisdiction was principally the recognisance of weights and measures, to try whether they were according to the true standard thereof, which standard was anciently committed to the custody of the bishop, who appointed some clerk under him to inspect abuses; and hence this officer, though usually a layman, was called the clerk of the market, 4 Bl. Com. 275. His functions are now discharged by inspectors under the Weights and Measures Act. See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES....
Assay
Assay, [fr. exigere, Lat., to test] of weights and measures, examining weights and measures by clerks of markets, etc., Blount. Also the testing and proving of coins, metals, etc. By the (English) Gold and Silver Wares Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 22), s. 2, partly repealed by the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27), it is felony to forge or counterfeit any assay mark. As to assay of foreign imported plate, see 46 & 47 Vict. c. 55, s. 10; 4 Edw. 7, c. 6; and 7 Edw. 7, c. 13, s. 5 see PLATE.Means a proof or trial, by chemical experiments, of the parity of metal, esp., gold and silver. An examination of weights and measures, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 111....
Advowson
Advowson [fr. advocare, Lat.], a right of presentation to, or the patronage of, a church or spiritual living; the person possessed of this right or patronage being called the patron or advocate (patronus aut advocatus), on account of his obligation to protect and defend the privileges of the particular benefice. An advowson is in the nature of a temporal property and spiritual trust. For the origin and history of advowsons, consult Mirehouse on Advowsons, pp. 1-6.There are several kinds of advowsons, viz.:--(I.) Presentative advowsons, subdivided into,Appendant.In gross, andPartly appendant, and partly in gross.(II.) Collative advowsons.(I.) A presentative advowson appendant is a right of patronage annexed to the possession of some corporeal hereditament. Thus, where an advowson has immemorially passed together with a manor or reputed manor by a simple grant of such manor, without particularly referring to the advowson, it is then said to be appendant, i.e., annexed to the demesnes of ...
oscilloscope
An electronic measuring instrument which provides a visual representation of the time variation of electrical quantities such as voltage or current It may be used to measure the shape of a voltage pulse or the frequency of an oscillating voltage It can also be used to measure properties of other physical variables such as sound or light intensity if they can be translated into electrical voltage or current...
hodometer
A device for measuring the length of a path consisting of a wheel of known circumference attached to a rod held in the hand and pushed along a surface which is usually the ground or a floor The number of times the wheel makes a complete circle multiplied by the circumference is a measure of the length of the path traversed It may be used to measure distances on curved as well as straight paths A variant which registers the miles and rods traversed is sometimes used by surveyors...
Heliometer
An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope...
Hectoliter
A measure of liquids containing a hundred liters equal to a tenth of a cubic meter nearly 2612 gallons of wine measure or 220097 imperial gallons As a dry measure it contains ten decaliters or about 256 Winchester bushels...
Gallon
A measure of capacity containing four quarts used for the most part in liquid measure but sometimes in dry measure...
Commensurable
Having a common measure capable of being exactly measured by the same number quantity or measure...
Cephalometry
The measurement of the heads of living persons...
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