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Gomposltio

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. A putting together, or making up; composition or satisfaction; a statute or ordinance. Compositio mensurarum: the ordinance of measures; an ancient ordinance, mentioned in the statute 23 Hen. VIII., c.

4, establishing a standard of measures.

Compositio ulnarum et perticarnm: the statute of ells and perches; an English statute establisliing a standard of measures.