Carat
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A weight equal to three and one-
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A weight of 4 grains.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The weight of four grains, used
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A measure of weight for diamonds and other precious stones, equivalent to three and one-sixth grains Troy, though divided by jewelers into four parts called "diamond grains." Also a standard of fineness of gold, twenty-four carats being conventionally taken as expressing absolute purity, and the proportion of gold to alloy in a mixture being represented as so many carats.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A weight of four grains, used in weighing diamonds. Webster. A weight equal to three and one-sixth grains. Whari00,
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
weights. A carrat weight equal to four grains, in diamonds and the like. Jac. L. Dict.