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Home Dictionary Name: measurements Page: 2Weighing 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)]...
Water-measure
Water-measure, a greater measure than the Winchester, formerly used for selling coals in the Pool, etc., 22 Car. 2, c. 11...
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....
Measurer, or Meter
Measurer, or Meter, an officer in the City of London who measured woollen cloths, coals, etc. see ALNAGER...
Futurological measures
Futurological measures, legal measures which could become a reality in future. See Maru Ram v. Union of India, AIR 1980 SC 2147 (2156)]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
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)....
Measurer
One who measures one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market...
Measurement
The act or result of measuring mensuration as measurement is required...
Measured
Regulated or determined by a standard hence equal uniform graduated limited moderated as he walked with measured steps he expressed himself in no measured terms...
Coal measures
Coal measures, has been held to include those identifiable seams of coal which are or might be worth mining, Earl of Consdale v. A-G, (1982) 3 All ER 579....
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