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Home Dictionary Name: weight or measure Page: 3Weighing 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)]...
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....
Standard
Standard, means standards specified by the Govern-ment through, notification, under this Act or the standards prescribed under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986). [Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(p)]Standard, that which is of undoubted authority, and the test of other things of the same kind; a settled rate. See the Weights and Measures Act, 1878, and the Amendment Act of 1926. The 1936 Act (25 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 38) deals mostly with the measur-ing of sand and sand ballast.1. A model accepted as correct by custom, consent, or authority, 2. A criterion for measuring accept-ability, quality or accuracy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1412-13...
Ballast
Ballast. Heavy matter, as water, sand, stone, or iron, carried in the bottom of a ship to increase its weight and prevent its being readily over-set, a vessel being said to be 'in ballast' when she sails without a cargo. For penalty for taking from shore of harbour, etc., see (English) Harbours Act, 1814 (54 Geo. 3, c. 15); and for penalty for throwing it into harbour or dock, (English) Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 27), s. 73; and see (English) Weights and Measurers Act, 1936....
Bullion
Bullion [fr. billon, Fr., copper], uncoined gold and silver in the mass. Those metals are called so, either when smelted from the native ore, and not perfectly refined; or when they are perfectly refined, but melted down into bars or ingots, or into any unwrought body, of any degree of fineness. As to the purchase of bullion for the Mint, see (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 9, which provides that the Treasury may, from time to time, issue to the Master of the Mint such sums as may be necessary to enable him to purchase bullion to provide supplies of coin for the public service. As to the weights used in sales of bullion, see Weights and Measures Act, 1878, replacing 16 & 17 Vict. c. 29. See CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES ACT.Means gold or silver in the mass. It connotes gold or Silver regarded as raw material and it may be either in the form of raw gold or silver or ingots or bars of gold or silver, Deputy Commissioner Sales Tax (Board of Revenue) v. G.S. Pai, AIR 1980 S...
Dram
Dram, 1/16 of an ounce [(English) Weights and Measures Act, 1878, s. 14]. Not to be confused with drachm (q.v.) of the Apothecaries' weights...
Tea
Tea, means tea plant and includes tea leaves, Goodricke Group Ltd. v. State of West Bengal, 1995 Supp (1) SCC 707. [Tea Act, 1953, s. 3(n)]The Sale of Food (Weights and Measures) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 63), makes it an offence to sell tea otherwise than by net weight and in multiples of ounces and pounds. Tea was first taxed in 1660 (12 Car. 2, c. 23) as a beverage at 8d. a gallon, and afterwards in the leaf at 5s. per lb. in 1688 (1 W. & M. Sess. 2, c. 6...
Ton
Ton, 20 cwts. Of 112 lbs. avoirdupois each: see (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1878, s. 14.Ton, is a unit of volume in shipping parlance and is not to be taken as weight as may be commonly understood, Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1989 Del 289.Means a unit of volume equal to 2.83 Cu. metres which is equal to 100 cu.feet, see Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, s. 74; Ports Act (15 of 1908), ss. 3(6), 33, 34, 41 and Sch. I, col. 3....
International prototype of the kilogram
International prototype of the kilogram, 'inter-national prototype of the kilogram' means the prototype sanctioned by the First Conference on Weight and Measures held in Paris in 1889, and deposited at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. [Standards of Weights and Mea-sures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(l)]...
Secondary standard
Secondary standard, means the set of standard weight or measure which is made or manufactured by or on behalf of the Central or State Government for the verification of any working standard. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976) s. 2(x)]...
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