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Champer
(gcide) | Champer \Champ"er\, n.
One who champs, or bites.
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Champertor
(gcide) | Champertor \Cham"per*tor\, n. [F. champarteur a divider of
fields or field rent. See Champerty.] (Law)
One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the
right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in
order to obtain a share of the gain.
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Champerty
(gcide) | Champerty \Cham"per*ty\, n. [F. champart field rent, L.
campipars; champ (L. campus) field + part (L. pars) share.]
1. Partnership in power; equal share of authority. [Obs.]
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Beaut['e] ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness,
Ne may with Venus holde champartye. --Chaucer.
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2. (Law) 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. See
Maintenance.
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Note: By many authorities champerty is defined as an
agreement of this nature. From early times the offence
of champerty has been forbidden and punishable.
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champerty
(wn) | champerty
n 1: 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" |
CHAMPERTOR
(bouvier) | CHAMPERTOR, crim. law. One who makes pleas or suits, or causes them to be
moved, either directly or indirectly, and sues them at his proper costs,
upon condition of having a part of the gain.
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CHAMPERTY
(bouvier) | CHAMPERTY, crimes. A bargain with a plaintiff or defendant, campum partire,
to divide the land or other matter sued for between them, if they prevail at
law, the champertor undertaking to carry on the suit at his own expense. 1
Pick. 416; 1 Ham. 132; 5 Monr. 416; 4 Litt. 117; 5 John. Ch. R. 44; 7 Port.
R. 488.
2. This offence differs from maintenance, in this, that in the latter
the person assisting the suitor receives no benefit, while in the former he
receives one half, or other portion, of the thing sued for. See Punishment;
Fine; Imprisonment; 4 Bl. Com. 135.
3. This was an offence in the civil law. Poth. Pand. lib. 3, t. 1; App.
n. 1, tom. 3, p. 104; 15 Ves. 139; 7 Bligh's R. 369; S. C. 20 E. C. L. R.
165; 5 Moore & P. 193; 6 Carr. & P. 749; S. C. 25 E. C. L. R. 631; 1 Russ.
Cr. 179 Hawk. P. C. b. 1 c. 84, s. 5.
4. To maintain a defendant may be champerty. Hawk. P. C. b. 1, c. 84, s.
8 3 Ham. 541; 6 Monr. 392; 8 Yerg. 484; 8 John. 479; 1 John. Ch. R. 444;, 7
Wend. 152; 3 Cowen, 624; 6 Cowen, 90.
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