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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ancient-Rome, Scotland
Topics: law
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History
From Latin stellionatus (“cozenage, trickery”), from stellio (“a newt, a crafty, knavish person”).
