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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A combination among the dealers in a specific commodity, or outside eapitulists, for the purpose of buying up the greater portion of that commodity which is upon the market or may be brought to market, and holding the same back from sale, until the demand shall so far outrun the limited supply as to advance the price abnormally.

72 Pa, St. 158; 101 Mass. 145.

In surveying. An angle made by two boundary lines; the common end of two boundary lines, which run at an angle with each obher.