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Pound [fr. pund, Sax.; pondo, Lat.], a certain weight, consisting in troy weight of 12, in avoirdupois of 16 ounces; the sum of 20s, said to be so called because in Saxon times 240 pence weighed a pound. See Lambard, 219. A pound Scots, anglice, a shilling.A penfold, an inclosure, a prison in which beasts seized for rent (see DISTRESS) or caught on the land of another (see DAMAGE FEASANT) may be kept until they are replevied or redeemed. It is either overt, i.e., open overhead; or covert, i.e., in a close. See 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 12, whereby no distress of cattle may be driven more than three miles from where it was taken, and not more than 4d. may be taken for any one whole distress impounded; the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737, s. 10, empowering any person lawfully distraining for rent to impound the distress on the premises chargeable with the rent.By s. 7 of the (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 27) penalties are imposed for impounding or confining any...
Breach of pound
Breach of pound. See POUND....
Foot pound
A unit of energy or work being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity through a vertical distance of one foot...
Pound breach
The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals...
One Hundred Thousand Pounds Clause
One Hundred Thousand Pounds Clause, a clause in the conveyance by the tenant-in-tail to the tenant to the pr'cipe, which provided that if the latter did not pay 100,000l. (or some other sum grossly in excess of the value of the land) on a specified date subsequent to the recovery, the estate of the tenant to the pr'cipe was to be avoided. See 1 Preston's Conveyancing, 109 and 110; and see RECOVERY....
Pound of land
Pound of land, an uncertain quantity of land, said to be about fifty-two acres....
Costs
Costs, expenses incurred in litigation or professional transactions, consisting of money paid for stamps, etc., to the officers of the Court, or to the counsel and solicitors, for their fees, etc.Costs in actions are either between solicitor and client, being what are payable in every case to the solicitor by his client, whether he ultimately succeed or not; or between party and party, being those only which are allowed in some particular cases to the party succeeding against his adversary, and these are either interlocutory, given on various motions and proceedings in the course of the suit or action, or final, allowed when the matter is determined.Neither party was entitled to costs at Common Law, but the Statute of Gloucester (6 Edw. 1, c. 4), gave cots to a successful plaintiff, and 2 & 3 Hen. 8, c. 6, and 4 Jac. 1, c. 3, to a victorious defendant; see Garnett v. Bradley, (1878) 3 App Cas 944.In proceedings between the Crown and a subject the general rule is that the Crown neither ...
Receipt
Receipt, an acknowledgment in writing of having received a sum of money, which is prima facie but not conclusive evidence of payment, Skaife v. Jackson, (1824) 3 B&C 421.The act of receiving something; a written acknow-ledgment that something has been received, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.A stamp duty first imposed in 1783 was progressively ad valorem, until 1853, when the uniform 1d. rate was imposed; this was increased to 2d. by the Finance Act, 1920.For the purposes of the Stamp Act, 1891, the expression 'receipt' is defined (s. 101) as including--(1) Any note, memorandum, or writing whereby any money amounting to two pounds or upwards, or any bill of exchange or promissory note for money amounting to two pounds or upwards, is acknow-ledged or expressed to have been received or deposited or paid, or whereby any debt or demand, or any part of a debt or demand, of the amount of two pounds or upwards, is acknowledged to have been settled, satisfied, or discharged, or which signifie...
Hundredweight
A denomination of weight containing 100 112 or 120 pounds avoirdupois according to differing laws or customs By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds In most of the United States both in practice and by law it is 100 pounds avoirdupois the corresponding ton of 2000 pounds sometimes called the short ton being the legal ton...
Parcel post
That branch of the post office having to do with the collection transmission and delivery of parcels4 The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883 The rates in 1913 dating from 1897 were 3d for parcels not exceeding one pound and 1d for each additional pound up to the limit of 10 pounds A general parcel post was established in the United States by Act of August 24 1912 which took effect Jan 1 1913 At that time parcels could not exceed 11 pounds in weight nor 72 inches in length and girth combined Provision is made from insuring parcels and also for sending parcels COD The rates of postage vary with the distance See Zone below...
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