• (n.) Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one`s own which belongs to another, etc.
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Stel'lion·ate noun [ Latin
stellionatus cozenage, trickery, from
stellio a newt, a crafty, knavish person.]
(Scots & Roman Law) Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's ow...
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A name given generally, to all species of frauds committed in making contracts. This word is said to be derived from the Latin stellio, a kind of lizard remarkable for its cunning and the change of its color, because those guilty of frauds used every art and cunning to conceal them. But more particularly it was the crime of a person who fraudulen.....
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any crime of unspecified class that involves fraud, esp. one that involves the selling of the same property to different people.
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