Cosening
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In old English law
An offense whereby anything is done deceitfully whether in or out of contracts, which cannot be fitly termed by an especial name. Called in the civil law stellionatus. West, Symb. pt.
2, "Indictment," § 68; Blount; 4 Bl. Comm. 168.