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A French measure of solidity, used in measuring wood. It is a cubic meter. … [Read more...] about STERE

Fr. In French law. A party who fraudulently mortgages property to which he has no title. … [Read more...] about STELLIONATAIRE

Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child. It is curable and incurable; when of the latter kind, at the time of the marriage, and arising from impotency, it is a good cause for dissolving a marriage. … [Read more...] about STERILITY

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, … [Read more...] about STELLIONATE

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. … [Read more...] about STELLIONATUS