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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...
False weight or measure
False weight or measure, means any weight or measure which does not conform to the standards established by or under this Act in relation to that weight or measure. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(g)]A weight or measure that does not comply with governmentally prescribed standard or with prevailing custom in the place and business in which the weight or measure is used, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 619....
Weight or measure
Weight or measure, means a weight or measure specified by or under this Act, and includes a weighing or measuring instrument. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(zd)]...
Unverified weight or measure
Unverified weight or measure, means a weight or measure which, being required to be verified and stamped under this Act, has not been so verified and stamped. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(za)]...
General Conference on Weights and Measures
General Conference on Weights and Measures, means the Conference General des Poids et Measures established under the Convention due Metre. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(h)]...
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.)...
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....
Weighing 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)]...
Metric system
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....
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