Ferderal and state l1926 |
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agent agriculture apparatus appointed authorized avoirdupois Babcock test bale bottles brand bushel butterfat capacity cent certificate city sealer coal commissioner commodity contain conviction thereof corn cotton cotton duck court cubic inches deemed guilty delivered deputy drams dry measure duties exposed for sale false weight fees fifty dollars firm or corporation five furnished gallon grain hereby hundred dollars imprisonment inside hoop inspection inspector of weights label license manufacturer marked meas measuring devices meter metric system milk or cream millimeters misdemeanor municipal net weight offense offered for sale offered or exposed one-half inches ounces owner package packed penalty pint pipette prescribed public weigher punished purchaser purpose quantity quart sealed sealer of weights seed sell or offer sold stamped standard weights standards of weights Stats superintendent of weights thousand tion town United unlawful violation weight or measure weights and measures
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Page 719 - If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate (the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 719 - Third.' If in package form, the quantity of the contents be not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count: Provided, however, That reasonable variations shall be permitted, and tolerances and also exemptions as to small packages shall be established by rules and regulations made in accordance with the provisions of section three of this act.
Page 249 - ' misbranded, ' ' as used herein, shall apply to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular...
Page 65 - Whoever, by himself, or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, sells, exchanges, or delivers, or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell or exchange, or...
Page 784 - 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, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the Metric System.
Page 403 - Columbia shall present satisfactory evidence of any such violation, to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the proper courts of the United States, without delay, for the enforcement of the penalties as in such case herein provided. SEC. 6. That the term "drug...
Page 502 - Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any corporation, company, society, or association, within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, omission,, or failure of such corporation, company, society, or association as well as that of the person.
Page 8 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.
Page 32 - Person" includes a corporation or partnership or two or more persons having a joint or common interest. To "purchase" includes to take as mortgagee and to take as pledgee.
Page 33 - ... shipper's weight, load and count" or the like, if such indication be true. (2) When goods are loaded by an issuer who is a common carrier, the issuer must count the packages of goods if package freight and ascertain the kind and quantity if bulk freight. In such cases "shipper's weight, load and count...