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Indirect
Corpus delicti
all dealings in which any other sta weights or measures
than those appointed by authority were employ'd.
The first expedient I should be apt to think
would be sufficient: for who are there that carry on
their dealings with bullion, when good money, or
even when bad money is provided by the state?
At any rate it would with the assistance of the second;
which at the same time would spare individuals the
expence of renewing buying new weights and measures
while
it rather expensive:
Upon this plan there would be the measures are attended with some expence: but as
Tuscany has borne it, so, for example one should imagine, might Great
Britain.
In Tuscany a set of standards was sent to each communauté [corporation or incorporated district.] Neither The exact
number and or nor the exact local dimension area extent of these district
communautés appear: v. p. 10
but it is plain they were pretty
numerous, since this plan of distribution was adopted for
the express purpose of saving individuals the trouble of
sending their weights and measures to be verified at the
principal towns. ib. p. 190
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