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Definition :

Stellionate [stellionats], a kind of crime which is committed by a deceitful selling of a thing; as if a man should sell as his own estate that which is another's.

In the Roman law, the making a second mortgage without giving notice of the first; but the crime was not committed if the land were equal in value to all the charges upon it, Dig. 13. See the Clandestine Mortgage Act (4 & 5 W. & M. c. 16).