Stellionatus
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A criminal fraud not amounting to any other definite offence. Pollock, Expansion of C. L. 84.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Lat.
In the civil law. A general name for any kind of fraud not falling under any specific class. But the term is chiefly applied to fraud practiced in the sale or pledging of property; as, selling the same property to two different persons, selling another's property as one's own, placing a second mortgage on property without disclosing the existence of the first, etc.