Usually means: Fraudulent sale of nonexistent property.
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  1. stellionate: Merriam-Webster
  2. stellionate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stellionate: Wordnik
  4. stellionate: Wiktionary
  5. stellionate: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Stellionate, stellionate: Dictionary.com
  7. Stellionate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. stellionate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. stellionate: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  10. Stellionate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. stellionate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. stellionate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Stellionate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Stellionate: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (stellionate)

noun:  (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.

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