Real (unit)
Real was a French unit of volume and a unit of area in the Philippines .
Volume unit
The real, also réal or resal , was a French measure of volume and grain . It was common in the Duchy of Lorraine, with Nancy as the capital, and was one of the older measures. Boisseau (old) was reckoned with about 13 liters .
- 1 real / réal / resal = 4 cartes = 9660 Parisian cubic inches = 191.62 liters (≈ 15 bushels / boisseaux)
- 1 card = 2 Imal
Area unit
Real was a unit of area in the province of Sorsogon in the Philippines.
- 1 Real = 1 Sicapaton = 1746.875 square meters
- 2 reals = 1 bintingnon = 3493.75 square meters
- 3 Reales = Telobintingnon = 5240.625 square meters
- 4 Reales = ½ Pisoson = 1 Salapion = 6987.5 square meters
- 5 reales = 1 limang-sicapaton = 8734.375 square meters
- 6 reales = 1 pitong sicapaton = 10,481.25 square meters
- 8 reales = 1 pisoson = 1 hectare plus 39.75 ares = 5000 square brazas (= 2 socol) = 13,975 square meters
In the province of Ambos Camarines ( Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur ) were 2½ square bazas = 1 Socol = 6,987.2 square meters (4 reales)
literature
- JP Sanger: Census of the Philippine Islands. Volume 4, US Bureau of the census, Washington 1905, p. 455.
- Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants, manufacturers, businessmen, or complete dictionary on trade, factories, manufactures, arts, etc. Trade, edited by a society Scholars u. practical merchants. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1848, p. 322.
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Beer: The latest foreign dictionary for the Germanization and explanation of all non-German words, idioms, art expressions and abbreviations that occur in language and writing. Volume 1, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1838, p. 546.