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Stellion
(gcide) | Stellion \Stel"lion\, n. [L. stellio a newt having starlike
spots on its back, fr. stella a star.] (Zool.)
A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern
Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded
with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim,
and star lizard.
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Stellionate
(gcide) | Stellionate \Stel"lion*ate\, n. [L. stellionatus cozenage,
trickery, fr. stellio a newt, a crafty, knavish person.]
(Scots & Roman Law)
Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; --
chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two
different persons, or selling that for one's own which
belongs to another, etc. --Erskine.
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STELLIONATE
(bouvier) | STELLIONATE, civil law. A name given generally, to all species of frauds
committed in making contracts.
2. This word is said to be derived from the Latin stellio, a kind of
lizard remarkable for its cunning and the change of its color, because those
guilty of frauds used every art and cunning to conceal them. But more
particularly it was the crime of a person who fraudulently assigned, sold,
or engaged the thing which he had before assigned sold, or engaged to
another, unknown to the person with whom be was dealing. Dig. 47, 20, 3;
Code, 9, 34, 1; Merl. Repert. h.t.; Code Civil, art. 2069; 1 Bro. Civ. Law,
426.
3. In South Carolina and Georgia, a mortgagor who makes a second
mortgage without disclosing in writing, to the second mortgagee, the
existence of the first mortgage, is not allowed to redeem and, in the
foreign state, when a person suffers a judgment, or enters into a statute or
recognizance binding his land, afterwards mortgages it, without giving
notice, in writing, of the prior incumbrance, he shall not be allowed to
redeem, unless, within six months from a written demand, he discharges such
incumbrance. Prin. Dig. 161; 1 Brev. Dig. 166-8.
4. In Ohio a fraudulent conveyance is punished as a crime; Walk. Intr.
350; and, in Indians, any party to a fraudulent conveyance is subjected to a
flue and to double damages. Ind. Rev. Laws, 189. See 12 Pet. 773.
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