Engross

To copy the rude draught of an instrument in a fair, large hand. To write out, in a large, fair hand, on parchment. The term is applied to statutes, which, after being read and acted on a sufficient number of times, are ordered to be engrossed. Anciently, also, used of the process of making the indenture of a fine.

5 Co. 39 6.

In Criminal Law. To buy up such large quantities of an article as to obtain a monopoly of it for the purpose of selling at an unreasonable price. The tendency of modern law is very decidedly to restrict the application of the law against engrossing; and is very doubtful if it applies at all except to obtaining a monopoly of provisions; 1 East 143. And now the common-law offence of the total engrossing of any commodity is abolished by Stat. 7 & 8 Vict. c.

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Merely buying for the purpose of selling again is not necessarily engrossing.

14 East 406; 15 id.