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Measuring money

Measuring money, a duty which some persons exacted, by letters-patent, for every piece of cloth made, besides alnage. It is abolished....

measure of damages

measure of damages :the method under applicable principles of law for determining the damages sustained by a party ...

Metric system, a system (adopted in every European country except our own and Russia) in numbering of coinage, weights, measures, etc., wherein the integer is divided into fractions of a tenth, hundredth, etc., and no others. Contracts are not invalid on the ground that the weights or measures expressed therein are of the metric system. See s. 21 of the (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1878 which has taken the place of the repealed (English) Metric Weights and Measures Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 117), which recited that 'for the promotion and extension of our internal as well as our foreign trade, it was expedient to legalize the use of the metric system of weights and measures.' The Act of 1878, however, not authorizing the physical use of metric weights and measures, such physical use is expressly authorized by the (English) Weights and Measures (Metric System) Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 46)....

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...

Countergage

An adjustable gage with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made...

Barometry

The art or process of making barometrical measurements...

Land boundary

Land boundary, means the limit of a landholding, usu. described by linear measurements of the borders, by points of the compass or by stationary markers, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 882....

Bertillon system

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements notes of markings deformities color impression of thumb lines etc...

Coulomb

The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm or the quantity transferred by one ampegravere in one second Formerly called weber...

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