An Inquiry Into the English System of Weights and Measures (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the English System of Weights and MeasuresTo return from this discussion. The third way of construing the Silian law is to suppose that, between the two measures of capacity, the framers of it intended a proportionate equality in weigh and measure combined. And this seems to me the best founded. I do not deny that dissimilar practices, proceeding upon both of the other interpretations, and leading to the introduction of the various pounds which have been mentioned, may not have grown up even within two centuries from the en actment: but they originated in a misapprehension of the meaning of the law, just as we shall see presently from a similar misapprehension of a written law, ac erning in a shorter time, arose the confusion which destroyed the old Saxon proportionate uniformity of standards.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.