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Meanwhile, secular laws sought to regulate markets through laws on forestalling, regrating, engrossing, Assize of Bread and Ale etc. and boosted those on coining offenses.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Kalamazoo 2009

They had, moreover, taken bribes for concealment of offences of forestalling and regrating.

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

They also appeased the general apprehension of a scarcity of bread, by orders to prevent the exportation of corn, and by enforcing the old laws against monopoly, forestalling, and regrating.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Stringent laws were made against huckstering and regrating, and officers were appointed to punish offenders in this respect, "with pillories and pining-stools."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

Dealers in fish, for example, were not allowed to quit the City in order to meet a consignment "for the purpose of sending it to any great lord or a house of religion, or of regrating it," until the King's purveyors had first purchased what was required for their master's table.

The Customs of Old England

An English statute of 1552 which summarized, and prescribed penalties against, the offences of engrossing, forestalling and regrating, specially exempted badgers from these penalties, but required them to be licensed by three justices of the peace for the county in which they dwelt.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

In the towns there was an outcry against corn merchants, who were guilty of forestalling and regrating.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Some dealers were prosecuted under the old statutes against "forestalling and regrating," and when one named Rusby, charged with buying oats at 41s. a quarter and selling them again in the same market at 44s., was found guilty, Lord Kenyon congratulated the jury on the benefit which their verdict conferred on the country.

The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886

Nothing was more hateful to the mediæval trader than forestalling and regrating.

The History of London Walter Besant 1868

A bill to define and punish the offences of forestalling, regrating and engrossing, and to regulate and restrict the intermediate employment of capital between the producer and consumer, being the order of the day, was taken up, and on motion, postponed, and made the order of the day for Wednesday at 1 o'clock.

Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1863-64. Message of the Governor of Virginia, and Accompanying Documents. Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates 1863