Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Barratry, Champerty, and Maintenance
Here are definitions of some interesting legal terms from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
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- Barratry: "The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels."
- Champerty: "The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit."
- Maintenance: "An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on."
