 | Agriculture - 1878 - 492 pages
.... A contract or dealing shall not be invalid or open to objection on the ground that the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system, or on the ground that decimal subdivisions of imperial weights and measures, whether metric or otherwise,... | |
 | Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland, F. J. Ottarson, Alexander Jacob Schem, Edward McPherson, Henry Eckford Rhoades - Almanacs, American - 1868 - 672 pages
...dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein, are weights or measures of the Metric system. 2. The tables in the schedules hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1866 - 508 pages
...dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1866 - 540 pages
...dealing, or pleading in any court, shall he deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto an • nexed shall be recognized,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1867 - 832 pages
...dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. " SEC. 2. And be it farther ruactetl, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized,... | |
 | Ontario County (N.Y.) - 1867 - 266 pages
...Mill-i-er. Tonneau, Tun-no. Acts and Resolutions of Congress. PUBLIC -No. 183. cause the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed, shall be recognized... | |
 | Metric system - 1867 - 50 pages
...dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized,... | |
 | Richard Nelson - Arithmetic - 1867 - 304 pages
...dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the Metric System. prefixes are deci, -j^jth ; centi, -j-Jirth ! decimeter is one-tenth and a centimeter one-hundredth... | |
 | Education - 1867 - 356 pages
...dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid, or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the Metric System. SECTION 2. — AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized... | |
 | Charles Davies - Metric system - 1867 - 32 pages
...dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be doomed invalid or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the Metric System. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the ¡schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized... | |
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That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system, and no contract or dealing or pleading in any court shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection... 
