FORESTALLING, REGRATING AND ENGROSSING

Authors

Wendell Herbruck, Of the Bar of Canton, Ohio

Abstract

The earliest attempts in English Law to regulate trade are to be found in the enactments against forestalling, regrating and engrossing and in them, it has been asserted, is the basis of our modern legislation against monopolies and combinations in restraint of trade. Aside, however, from the mention that is occasionally made of these crimes in connection with the history of the laws of trade, the words as a part of legal terminology are almost obsolete, although the word "forestalling" is used to define a crime punishable under the laws of Ohio and doubtless is to be found in other criminal codes. The comparative obscurity of these crimes in modern legislation is interesting in view of their importance in English legal and economic history.

Recommended Citation

Wendell Herbruck, FORESTALLING, REGRATING AND ENGROSSING, 27 Mich. L. Rev. 365 (1929).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol27/iss4/2