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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 See s. 21 of the (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1878 which has taken the place of the repealed (English) Metric Weights and Measures Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vict.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)....
Calibration
Calibration, means all the operations which are necessary for the purpose of determining the values of the errors of a weight or measure and, if necessary, to determine the other metallurgical properties of such weight or measure, and includes the actual fixing of the positions of the gauge-marks or scale-marks of a weight or measure, or in some cases, of certain principal marks only, in relation to the corresponding values of the quantity to be measured.Explanation.--Calibration may also be carried out with a view to permitting the use of a weight or measure as a standard....
Stamp
Stamp, means a mark, which is made on, or in relation to, any weight or measure with a view to, (i) certifying that such weight or measure conforms to the standard specified by or under this Act, or (ii) indicating that any mark which was previously made thereon certifying that such weight or measure conforms to the standards by or under this Act, has been obliterated.Explanation,.--A stamp may be made by impressing, casting, engraving, etching, branding or any other process. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(y)]An official mark or seal placed on a document esp. to indicate that a required tax had been paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1412....
Measure
Measure [fr. mensura, Lat.], that by which anything is measured; the rule by which anything is adjusted or proportioned. See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES and DISTANCE. s. 13 (1) of the Weights and Measures Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that the denomination of a length measure must be stamped upon it, s. 28 of the Act of 1878 having already prescribed the stamping upon a measure of capacity. The 25th chapter of Magna Charta prescribes one measure of wine, ale, and corn 'though our realm.'Also an enactment of the National Assembly of the Church of England (q.v.)...
Repairer
Repairer, includes a person who adjusts, cleans, lubricants or paints any weight or measure or renders any other service to such weight or mea-sure to ensure that such weight or measure conforms to the standards established by or under this Act. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(u)]...
Use in transaction for trade or commerce
Use in transaction for trade or commerce, the expression 'use in transaction for trade or commerce' means use for the purpose of determining or declaring the quantity of anything in terms of measurement of length, area, volume, capacity or weight in or in connection with (a) any contract, whether by way of sale, purchase, exchange or otherwise, or (b) any assessment of royalty; toll; duty or other dues, or (c) the assessment of any work done or services rendered, otherwise than in relation to research or scientific studies or in individual households for household purpose, Mohan Meakins Breweries Ltd. v. Controller of Weights and Measures, AIR 1989 SC 959 (961): (1989) 2 SCC 405: (1989) 1 SCR 475. [U.P. Weights and Measures Enforcement Act (5 of 1959), s. 2 (JJ), 7]...
Coal
Coal may be sold by weight only by the (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 21), s. 20. The seller delivers a weight ticket for the whole quantity sold, Kyle v. Dunsdon, (1908) 2 KB 293. The weighing is to take place at the premises of the seller, not on delivery at the premises of the purchaser, Knowles v. Sinclair, 1898 (1) QB 170. See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. As to the validity of bye-laws requiring coal carts to carry weighing machines, see Kent County Council v. Humphrey, 1895 (1) QB 903; Alty v. Farrell, 1896 (1) QB 636....
Working standard
Working standard, means the set of standard weight or measure which is made or manufactured by or on behalf of Government for the verification ofany standard weight or measure, other than a national prototype or national reference or secondary standard. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(ze)]...
Kilogram
Kilogram, 'kilogram' means the mass of the platinum-iridium cylinder deposited at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and declared international prototype of the kilogramme by First General Conference of Weights and Mea-sures. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956 (89 of 1956), s. 2(c)]...
Troy weight
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....
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