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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In old English law
The surreptitious printing by one bookseller of another's copy, to make gain thereby, and which is not only contrary to the common law, but is also forbidden by several English statutes.
Stat. 14 Car. II. c. 33; 16 Car. II. c. 6; 16 & 17 Car. 11. c. 7; 17 Car. II. c. 4. Cowell.