[Loch-Ruadh] Word of the Day, April 4
Cait O'Hara
lady_cait at lycos.com
Sat Apr 6 05:37:43 PST 2002
regrater
One who buys any wares or provisions and sells them again [forestalls] in the same market.
-- James Barclays Dictionary of the English Language, 1848
Death of English of Chief Justice Kenyon (1732-1802),
Who presided at many trials for forestalling. Instructing a jury in the case of a man indicted for purchasing oats and selling them at a profit on the same day, Kenyon evoked the doctrines of economist Adam Smith: I wish Dr. Smith had lived to hear the evidence of today. If he had been told that cattle and corn were brought to market and bought by a man whose purse happened to be longer than his neighbours, so the poor man who walks the streets and earns his daily bread by his daily labour could get none but through his hands
. Had it been raised three pence, six pence, nine pence, a shilling
on the same day, would he have said there is no danger from such an offense?
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For you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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