Stellionate

An obsolete name for offences that are by no means obsolete. It seems to have been vaguely used for a variety of wrongs, chiefly, however, such as involved fraud. Examples given in the books are: f raudulent bankruptcy; selling another man's property as one's own; making a second mortgage without giving notice of the first.

Stet processus

Let the process practice by which a plaintiff agrees that all further proceedings in the action shall be stayed. In English practice, this course was usually pursued where the defendant became insolvent pending the action. The object was to prevent his obtaining judgment as in case of a nonsuit. Stet processus is an entry on the roll in the nature of a judgment of a direction that all further proceedings shall be stayed {i.e. that the process may stand), and it is one of the ways by which a suit may be put an end to by an act of the party, as distinguished from a termination of it by judgment, which is the act of the court.

Brown.