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Regrating

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In old English law

The offense of buying or getting into one's hands at a fair or market any provisions, corn or other dead victual, with the intention of selling the same again in the same fair or market or in some other within four miles thereof, at a higher price. The offender was termed a "regrator."

3 Inst. 195; See Forsyth Mfg. Co. v. Castlen, 112 Ga. 199, 37 S. E. 485, 81 Am. St. Rep. 28.