stellionate

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. Ancient-Rome,Scotland
    — 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 disponees

词形变化

stellionates plural

词源

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