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5. C Defraudment by false standards
False False Standards are either [standards] of quantity
or [standards] of quality. Standards of quantity are either
of weight or measure. By standards are meant
in this case any instruments which serve to shew
the thing in question to be in a certain such or such a
quantity or of such or such a quality. Standards
may be false in themselves; or made so in the manner of
applying them.
Defraudment by false standards may be
committed in either of two ways : 1. by making
use of such as are false in themselves : 2.
by making a fraudulent application of such as
are not false. in thems
Defraudment by false standards how committed By standards are meant in this case, any
instruments which are made use of for shewing a
thing to be in such or such a quantity , or of such or
such a quality. Standards then are either of quantity(A)
or quality(B). Standards of quantity are either of weight(C)
or measure. Standards may be false either in themselves(D)
or in the manner of applying(E) them.
Exposition
[(A) Quantity] Standards of weight are designed to make
known the quantity of the thing in question by a direct
method: standards of measure, indirectly: by means
of the space it occupies To p. 6
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