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Definition of Champerty
1. Noun. An unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded. "Soliciting personal injury cases may constitute champerty"
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Definition of Champerty
1. n. Partnership in power; equal share of authority.
Definition of Champerty
1. Noun. (legal) investing money into an individual’s law suit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Champerty
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Champerty
Literary usage of Champerty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1881)
"It has been contended that in order to constitute champerty ... Several cases
have been cited in which champerty has been defined, and the proposition ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"Maintenance and champerty.—Maintenance and champerty are misdemeanors at common
law: 1. ... And champerty being maintenance in which the motive of the ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"MAINTENANCE AND champerty. thing, to find in a company of lords a zeal for ...
I mean the antique laws against what are called Maintenance and champerty. ..."
4. Handbook of the Law of Torts by Heman Gerald Chapin (1917)
"MAINTENANCE AND champerty 103. "Maintenance [is] an officious intermeddling in
a suit that noways belongs to one by maintaining or assisting either party ..."
5. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
"champerty. § 131. How defined —Distinguished from Maintenance. —champerty differs
from maintenance chiefly in this, that, in champerty, the compensation to ..."
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