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Admensuratio

n. [Law Latin] Hist. Admeasurement.

Mensura

n. [Latin) Hist. A measure.

Moneta est justum medium et mensura rerum commutabilium, nam per medium monetae fit omnium rerum conveniens et justa aestimatio

Money is the just medium and measure of all exchangeable things, for by the medium of money a suitable and just estimation of all things is made.

admensuratione dotis

See admeasurement of dower under ADMEASUREMENT.

de admensuratione dotis

n. [Law Latin "of the admeasurement of dower"] Hist. A writ available to an heir (or the heir's guardian if the heir is an infant) to reduce the dower of the ancestor's widow who, while the heir was an infant, was assigned more dower than she was entitled to. "If the heir or his guardian do not assign her dower within the term of quarantine, or do assign it unfairly, she has her remedy at law, and the sheriff is appointed to assign it. Or if the heir (being under age) or his guardian assign more than she ought to have, it may be afterwards remedied by writ of admeasurement of dower." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 136 (1766).

mensura domini Regis

[Law Latin "the measure of our lord the king"] Hist. The standard weights and measures established under Richard I, in his Parliament at Westminster in 1197. "Thus, under king Richard I, in his parliament holden at Westminster, A.D. 1197, it was ordained that there shall be only one weight and one measure throughout the kingdom, and that the custody of the assise or standard of weights and measures shall be committed to certain persons in every city and borough In king John's time this ordinance of king Richard was frequently dispensed with for money which occasioned a provision to be made for enforcing it These original standards were called pondus regis, and mensura doming regis; and are directed by a variety of subsequent statutes to be kept in the exchequer, and all weights and measures to be made conformable thereto." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 265-66 (1765).