stellionate

== English == === Etymology === From Latin stellionatus (“cozenage, trickery”), from stellio (“a newt, a crafty, knavish person”). === Noun === stellionate (plural stellionates) (law, Scotland, Ancient Rome) 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. === References === “stellionate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.