SCALE
scale,n.1. A progression of degrees; esp., a range of wage rates. 2. A wage according to a
range of rates. 3. An instrument for weighing. 4.Hist. In the practice of the English Supreme Court
of Judicature, the fee charged by a solicitor for a particular type of case. • Unless the court ordered
otherwise, the lower scale applied to all causes and matters assigned by the Judicature Acts to the
King’s Bench, or the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty divisions; to all actions for debt, contract, or
tort; and to almost all causes and matters assigned by the acts to the Chancery division and in
which the amount in controversy was less than £1,000. The higher scale applied in all other cases,
and in actions falling under one of the lower-scale classes if the principal relief sought was
injunctive. [Blacks Law 8th]