stellionate
Meanings
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.
Word forms
Etymology
From Latin stellionatus (“cozenage, trickery”), from stellio (“a newt, a crafty, knavish person”).
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