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Definition of Barratry

1. Noun. Traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments.

2. Noun. The crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery.

3. Noun. (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo.

4. Noun. The offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels.

Definition of Barratry

1. n. The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.

Definition of Barratry

1. Noun. the act of persistently instigating lawsuits, often groundless ones
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2. Noun. the sale and/or purchase of political positions of power ¹

3. Noun. (context: admiralty legal) unlawful or fraudulent acts by the crew of a vessel, harming the vessel's owner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Barratry

1. fraud committed by a master or crew of a ship [n -TRIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barratry

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Literary usage of Barratry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of the Law of Marine Insurances: With Three Chapters, on Bottomry by James Allan Park (1817)
"IT does not seem to have been any where precisely ascertained, from what source the term barratry has been derived. Indeed the derivations of barratry have ..."

2. Handbook of the Law of Insurance by William Reynolds Vance (1904)
"(Ch. 15 barratry is a common-law crime, and therefore necessarily ... But if the master is only part owner, he may commit barratry against his absent ..."

3. The Law of Contracts by Theophilus Parsons (1873)
"But it seems, that a captain who is a part-owner may commit barratry against his other ... (a) In many cases barratry is defined to be a fraud, cheat, ..."

4. An Abridgement of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn, Edward E. Law, Henry Wheaton, Thomas Isaac Wharton (1857)
"Neither is it necessary, in order to constitute barratry, that the master should derive, or even intend to derive, any benefit from the act done. ..."

5. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Charles Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond (1831)
"The defendant alleges ]0 barratry. that a loss has been occasioned by the ... In order to constitute barratry, which is a crime, the been done captain must ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance, Fire, Life, Accident, Marine: Fire, Life by George Richards (1892)
"barratry of the Masters and Mariners.— This term signifies any wilful ... barratry is a crime, and therefore no mere error of judgment can amount to it;3 ..."

7. A Treatise on Maritime Law: Including the Law of Shipping; the Law of Marine by Theophilus Parsons (1859)
"OF LOSS BY barratry. What barratry is has been much disputed, and may not be yet quite settled ; but we hold it to be any wrongful act of the master, ..."

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