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REGISTRY

Volume 3 · 69 words · 1771 Edition

the office, books, and rolls, in which the proceedings in chancery, or any spiritual court, are registered.

REGATOR, or REGATER, in law, formerly signified one who bought wholesale, or by the great, and sold again by retail: but the term is now used for one who buys any wares or victuals, and sells them again in the same market, or fair, or within fifteen miles round it. See Forestalling.