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Auncel Weight

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

An ancient manner of weighing by means of a beam held in the hand. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Weighing with a balance or steelyard.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An ancient manner of weighing by means of a beam held in the hand. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English law. An ancient mode of weighing, described by Cowell as "a kind of weight with scales hanging or hooks fastened tp each end of a staff, which a man, lifting up upon his forefinger or hand, discerneth the quality or difference between the weight and the thing weighed."