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, … [Read more...] about STELLIONATE

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

In Scotch law. Corns, cattle, straw, and implements of husbandry delivered by a landlord to his tenant, by which the tenant is enabled to stock and labor the farm; in consideration of which he Becomes bound to return articles equal in quantity and quality, at the expiry of the lease. Bell. … [Read more...] about STEELBOW GOODS

Theft is so called by some ancient writers. "Stealth is the wrongful taking of goods without pretense of title." Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 17. … [Read more...] about STEALTH

This term imports, ex vi termini, nearly the same as larceny; but in common parlance, it does not always import a felony; as, for example, you stole an acre of my land. 2. In slander cases, it seems that the term stealing takes its complexion from the subject-matter to which it is applied, and will be considered as intended of a felonious stealing, if a felony could have been … [Read more...] about STEALING