Scale

In early American law. To adjust, graduate, or value according to a scale. "The ourt scaled the debt." Marshall, arg. <- Wash. (Va.) 5, 6. A term used after the establishment of American independence, to signify a process of adjusting the difference in value between paper money and specie, rendered necessary by the great depreciation of the former. The act of assembly of Virginia of February 10, 1781, establishing a scale of depreciation, and declaring that outstanding current money contracts should be regulated by such scale, as at the date of such conijracts, is called "An act for scaling paper money contracts." 2 Wash. (Va.) [41] 52; Id. [98, 99] 127; Id. [103, 104] 132, 134.

In the American law. To adjust, graduate or value according to a scale.