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See Erskine's “Institutes of the Law of Scotland” (Edin., 1838, vol. II., p. 1095.) It is there stated that the party guilty of forestalling and regrating was liable to a penalty of £40 Scots for the first offence; 100 merks for the second; and for the third, to suffer “escheat of his moveables, &c.”