stellionate Meaning, Definition & Usage

Stel"lion*ate noun
Etymology
L. stellionatus cozenage, trickery, fr. stellio a newt, a crafty, knavish person.
Definitions
  1. (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 own which belongs to another, etc. Erskine.

Webster 1913