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stellionate

stellionate noun: 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.

Noun

stellionate (plural stellionates)

  1. (Ancient-Rome, Scotland) 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.
    • The crime of stellionate[…]includes every fraud which is not distinguished by a special name; but it is chiefly applied to conveyances of the same numerical right granted by the proprietor to different disponees1754, John Erskine of Carnock, Principles of the Law of Scotland

Forms of stellionate

pluralstellionates

Origin of stellionate

From Latin stellionatus (“cozenage, trickery”), from stellio (“a newt, a crafty, knavish person”).

Questions about stellionate

What does stellionate mean?
Stellionate means 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.
What part of speech is stellionate?
Stellionate is a noun.
What is the plural of stellionate?
The plural of stellionate is stellionates.

Words near stellionate in the dictionary

  1. stellings
  2. Stellingwarfs
  3. Stellingwerfs
  4. stellio
  5. stellion
  6. stellionate
  7. stellionates
  8. stellions
  9. stellite
  10. stellites
  11. stellium

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