Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.
compositio mensurarum — /kompazish(iy)ow menshareram/ The ordinance of measures. The title of an ancient ordinance, not printed, mentioned in the statute 23 Hen. VIII, c. 4; establishing a standard of measures. 1 Bl.Comm. 275 … Black's law dictionary
Compositio Mensurarum — The regulation of measures, the name of the earliest English statute which established a standard of weight. This was originally taken from corns or grains of wheat, thirty two of which, by the statute, made a pennyweight, twenty of these an… … Ballentine's law dictionary
