Measure of value
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In the ordinary sense of the word, "measure" would mean something by comparison with which we may ascertain what is the value of anything. When we consider, further, that value itself is relative, and that two things are necessary to constitute it, independently of the third thing, which is to measure it, we may define a "measure of value" to be something by comparing with which any two other things we may infer their value in relation to one another. 2 Mill, Pol. Econ. 101.
Defined under Measure in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In the ordinary sense of the word, “measure” would i Inean something by comparison with which we may ascertain what 1s the value of anything. When weconsider, further, that value itself is relative, and that two things are neeessary to constitute it, independently of the third thing, which is to measure it, we may define a “measure of value” to be something by comparing with which any two other 763 MEDIATE POWERS ! MEASURER, or METER. An officer in the city of London, who measured woolen clothes, coals, ete.