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AUNCEL WEIGHT Definition & Legal Meaning

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In English law. An ancient mode of weighing, described by Cowell as “a kind of weight with scales hanging, or hooks fastened to each end of a staff, which a man, lifting up upon his forefinger or hand, discerneth the quality or difference between the weight and the thing weighed.”

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