Swindler
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A cheat; one guilty of defrauding divers persons.
1 Term E. 748; -2 H. Bl. 531; Starkie, Sland. & L. 135. See 10 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 128.
Swindling is usually applied to a transaction where the guilty party procures the delivery to him, under a pretended contract, of the personal property of another, with the felonious design of appropriating it to his ovm use. -2 Russ. Crimes, 130; Alis. Crim. Law Sc. 250; 2 Mass. 406,