Category:Stellionate

Stel"lion*ate, n. Etym: [l. stellionatus cozenage, trickery, fr. Stellio a newt, a crafty, knavish person.] (scots & roman law)

Defn: 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. Erskine.