¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Champerties
1. champerty [n] - See also: champerty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Champerties
Literary usage of Champerties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... negligences, concealments, maintenances, oppressions, champerties, ...
oppressions, champerties, deceits, and all other evil-doings, offences, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1837)
"... champerties, falsities, deceits, contempts and other offences whatsoever ;
and also fines for licence of concords, ..."
3. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1906)
"And also of many other extortions, frauds, deceptions, oppressions, champerties,
and maintenances, committed against our lord the king and against his ..."
4. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"... Maintainers and champerties, which be utter Enemies to the due Execution of
Justice between Subject and Subject, be neither committed by any of you, ..."
5. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office, Public Record Office, Great Britain (1908)
"... oppressions, maintenances, entries, champerties, impeachments, insurrections,
conspiracies, negligences, escapes of felons and fugitives, ignorances and ..."
Other Resources:
