NBS Special Publication, Issue 101U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - Weights and measures |
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5-gallon adopted amendment American Automobile Association American Petroleum Institute amount Association bill Bureau of Standards bushel calibrated capacity carry that weight cent CHAIRMAN Chicago City Committee on Specifications Conference on Weights cooperation County courts cubic inches delivered delivery enforcement equipment F. S. HOLBROOK Federal Trade Commission gallons gasoline George K grain hampers HARRY FOLEY indicated industry inspector of weights legislative load manufacturers marked measures officials merchant meter method milk bottles Monmouth County motor National Conference operation outfit penny scales police power pounds practice present pressure proposed pumps quantity require retail round stave baskets rules and regulations sealer of weights sell shellac shipment SMITH sold specifications and tolerances splint baskets standard container act Suffolk County superintendent of weights Swift & Co tank test weights tion trade truck scales United valve weights and meas weights and measures
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Page 125 - Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment, as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law, as the legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the constitution, may think necessary and expedient.
Page 125 - The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution, to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the Commonwealth and of the subjects of the same.
Page 33 - The honest manufacturer's business may suffer, not merely through a competitor's deceiving his direct customer, the retailer, but also through the competitor's putting into the hands of the retailer an unlawful instrument, which enables the retailer to increase his own sales of the dishonest goods, thereby lessening the market for the honest product. That a person is a wrongdoer who so furnishes another with the means of consummating a fraud has long been a part .of the law of unfair competition.
Page 126 - The scope of judicial inquiry in deciding the question of power is not to be confused with the scope of legislative considerations in dealing with the matter of policy. Whether the enactment is wise or unwise, whether it is based on sound economic theory, whether it is the best means to achieve the desired result, whether, in short, the legislative discretion within its prescribed limits should be exercised in a particular manner, are matters for the judgment of the legislature, and the earnest conflict...
Page 126 - There is no absolute freedom to do as one wills or to contract as one chooses. The guaranty of liberty does not withdraw from legislative supervision that wide department of activity which consists of the making of contracts, or deny to government the power to provide restrictive safeguards. Liberty implies the absence of arbitrary restraint, not immunity from reasonable regulations and prohibitions imposed in the interests of the community.
Page 120 - In the construction of a doubtful and ambiguous law, the contemporaneous construction of those who were called upon to act under the law, and were appointed to carry its provisions into effect, is entitled to very great respect.
Page 127 - ... plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package, in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count : Provided, however.
Page 125 - All property in this Commonwealth is .... held subject to those general regulations which are necessary to the common good and general welfare. Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law as the legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them...
Page 127 - In determining the question of reasonableness, it is at liberty to act with reference to the established usages, customs, and traditions of the people, and with a view to the promotion of their comfort, and the preservation of the public peace and good order.
Page 119 - Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.