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Troy weight [pondus Troj', Lat.], a weight of twelve Troy ounces to the pound, having its name from Troyes, a city in Aube, France.Under the Weights and Measures Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 49), s. 20, precious metals (gold, silver, platinum and other precious metals), and gold and silver lace and precious stones may be sold by the ounce Troy of 480 grains (see Third Sch.); and all other articles must be sold by avoirdupois weight of 437.5 grains to the ounce avoirdupois, the metric equivalents for the respective ounces being 31.103496 grams (Troy), and 28.34954 grams (avoirdupois). The pound Troy does not seem to be referred to by statute. Drugs may be sold by apothecaries weight....
Avoirdupois, Avoirs-de-pois, or Aver-du-pois
Avoirdupois, Avoirs-de-pois, or Aver-du-pois [O. fr.] (to have weight), a method of weighing goods, allowing 16 ounces to the pound, whilst Troy weight allows but 12. See Weights and Measures Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 49); and TROY....
Grain
Grain, the twenty-fourth part of a penny-weight according to Troy weight.A grain is 1/252326th of the weight of a cubic inch of distilled water at a temperature of 62' F. A grain is 1/5760th of the pound Troy and 1/7000th of the pound avoirdupois. A metric gram equals 15.432356 grains. A milligram is .015 grains. A carat is 200 milligram or 3 grains. (B.T. Standard.)...
Weights and measures
Weights and measures, instruments for reducing the quantity and price of merchandise to a certainty, that there may be the less room for deceit and imposition. See AVOIRDUPOIS; TROY WEIGHT; and METRIC SYSTEM.The adjustment of weights and measures is a prerogative of the Crown, and has from an early date been regulated by statute-the Weights and Measures Act, 1878. The 25th and 26th sections enact that:25. Use or Possession for Use.-Every person who uses or has in his possession for use for trade any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, or weighing machine which is false or unjust, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 5l., or in the case of a second offence 20l. [as amended by the W. and M. Act, 1889], and any contract, bargain, sale, or dealing made by the same shall be void, and the weight, measure, scale, balance, or steelyard shall be liable to be forfeited.26. Fraud in Use.-Where any fraud is wilfully committed in the using of any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyar...
Pennyweight
A troy weight containing twenty four grains or the twentieth part of a troy ounce 1555 grams as a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic It is abbreviated dwt or pwt It was anciently the weight of a silver penny whence the name...
Pound
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...
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