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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1499, 1677-1678
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Stellionat(e, adj. [17th c. Eng. stellionate (1622), L. stelliōnātus, f. stellion- a fraudulent person. Also in the later dial.] In law: Describing any sort of fraud that has no other particular name. — 14.. Acts III 573/2.
That ane dewtie be nocht disponit to tua sindre parties quhilk is crimen stellionatus of the law 1677 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III 210.
Double dispositions are declared stellionate, by the 102d Act, Parliament 1540 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i xxviii § 1 (1699) 144.
Legislators were forced to invent this general name of stellionat; under which they might range all cheats
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