An ordinance fixing the amount of a payment or tax. Also attributive, as size-boll, size-money. Obsolete.

esp. Ordinances regulating weights and measures, and the weight and price of articles of general consumption (assisæ venalium); e.g. the Assize of Mea…

The decree or proclamation of the Roman Emperors fixing the valuation on which the property-tax was assessed at the beginning of each period of…

A parliamentary bill for levying a poll tax.

= frumentarious, adj. Only in frumentarian law, i.e. a law providing for the distribution of corn at low rates.

The statute 27 Edw. III (1353), which established staples (staple, n.2 1a) in various English towns, and at Carmarthen, Dublin, Waterford, Cork…

in Law. statute of frauds: the statute 29 Chas. II, c. 3, by which written memoranda were in many cases required to give validity to a contract.

one of several Acts of Parliament passed in the 18th cent. to control the sale of gin.

an Act of Parliament relating to the sale of liquor.

each of the various Acts of Parliament for regulating the stamp duties; esp. that of 1765 (5 Geo. III, c. 12) for levying stamp duties in the…

a bill for imposing or regulating stamp duties.

A law regulating the trade in corn, esp. its export and import.

an Act of Parliament passed by the British government in 1762, designed to prevent theft by bumboats from ships in harbours and docks on the Thames.

a law forbidding the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors, such as was first enacted in Maine in 1851. Cf. liquor law n. at liquor, n.…

a bill introduced into Parliament several times between 1864 and 1877, intended to give each parish the right to refuse the issue of licences to…

a law designed to provide redress for buyers of faulty or substandard cars (cf. sense 1c above).