Cosening
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In old English law
An offence, mentioned in the old books, where any thing waa done deceitfully, whether belonging to contracts or not, which could not be properly termed by any special name.
West Symbol, part 2, tit.
Indictments, sect.
68.
The same as the stellio' natus of the civil law.
Cowell.