Consuetudo, vel lex mercatoria, or The ancient law-merchant Diuided into three parts: according to the essentiall parts of trafficke. Necessarie for all statesmen, iudges, magistrates, temporall and ciuile lawyers, mint-men, merchants, marriners, and all others negotiating in all places of the world. By Gerard Malynes merchant.
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Consuetudo, vel lex mercatoria, or The ancient law-merchant Diuided into three parts: according to the essentiall parts of trafficke. Necessarie for all statesmen, iudges, magistrates, temporall and ciuile lawyers, mint-men, merchants, marriners, and all others negotiating in all places of the world. By Gerard Malynes merchant.
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Malynes, Gerard, fl. 1586-1641.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip,
Anno Dom. 1622.
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Law merchant -- Early works to 1800.
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"Consuetudo, vel lex mercatoria, or The ancient law-merchant Diuided into three parts: according to the essentiall parts of trafficke. Necessarie for all statesmen, iudges, magistrates, temporall and ciuile lawyers, mint-men, merchants, marriners, and all others negotiating in all places of the world. By Gerard Malynes merchant." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06786.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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Measures of the Grecians.
MEtrices a metiendo, called Artaba by the Aegyptians, is 16½ stoop, or a Sestier, waighing 100 ll at Antuerpe.
Chus is Congius Romanorum, about 1⅓ stoope, a drinke of farewell which they did drinke one to another, weighed 8¾ ll.
Cotila is Romanorum Hemina (the Spartans in their feasts gaue no more to euerie one) is halfe a pint. The king had 2 waight 11⅔ ounces.
Quartanius is ¼ of a pint, weighing 5⅚ ounces.
Oxibaphum, is as Acetabulum of 3¼ ounces, or 1½ Ciatos.
Metreta Laconica was lesse, as Amphora of the Romans of 96 Cotilas.
Modios or Medimios is 8 stoops of Antuerpe.
Metretes is 12 Chus, or 144 Cotilas, or 576 Oxibapha of 1½ Ciatos.
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Bats or Bathis is ½ Metretes, or 6 Hinas euerie Hina 8⅓ ll.
Logni is 5 Egges of ⅔ ll: there were three sorts of Egges vsed.
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