In old English law. The offense of buying or getting into one’s hands at a fair or market any provisions, corn, or other dead victual, with the inten-tlon of selling the same again in the same fair or market, or in some other within four ' miles thereof, at a higher price. The offend-er was termed a “regrator3 Inst. 195. See Forsyth Mfg. Co. v. Castlen, 112 Ga. 190
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)