 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 σελίδες
...fiunis/iable by the common law. III. How by statute. . • I. WHAT IT IS. Champerty (from cam/ii fiartf] is the unlawful maintenance of a suit, in consideration of some bargain to have part of the lands or things in dispute, or part of the gains. 1 Ham. 156. 33 Ed. \. St. 2. Every champerty is maintenance,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 σελίδες
...arms of him who kills a prisoner of war after he has called for quarter. CHAMPAim, or CHAMPERTY, is the unlawful maintenance of a suit, in consideration of some bargain to have part of the lands or thing in dispute, or part of the gain. By stut. 33 Ed. I. st. 3. both the chumpartor, and... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 834 σελίδες
...their own money in another's case. II. Of Champerty in particular. Champerty (from campi parte) is the unlawful maintenance of a suit in consideration of some bargain to have part of the lands or thing in dispute, or part of the gains. 1 Haw. c. 84. § 1. 33 Ed. l.st. 2. 1 Russ. 271. Every... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1824 - 838 σελίδες
...years imprisonment. CHAMPERTY.. See MAINTENANCE. EMBRACERY. BUYING A PRETENDED TlTI.E. Champerty is the unlawful maintenance of a suit, in consideration...some bargain to have part of the thing in dispute. 463 The several opinions which have been holden on the nature of this offence. 463 to 466 CHANCE MEDLEY.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1827 - 574 σελίδες
...though perhaps it may not in strictness come under the notion of maintenance. Another passage (56) is material; stating Champerty to be the unlawful...dispute, or some profit out of it; and by Statute ( 57 ) it is enacted, that no person for to have part of the thing in plea shall take upon him the... | |
 | John Collyer - 1828 - 700 σελίδες
...208, and is usually defined to be the unlawful maintenance of a suit in consideration of a bargain for part of the thing in dispute, or some profit out of it : \ HPC 145; 15 Fes. 156 ; 18 Fes. 120. Thus, where an attorney agrees to maintain a suit, upon an... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1831 - 850 σελίδες
...agreement cannot be enforced in a court of law. The offence of champerty is defined in the old books to be, the unlawful maintenance of a suit, in consideration...of the thing in dispute, or some profit out of it. That this was considered in earlier times, and in all countries, an offence pregnant with great mischief... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1832 - 874 σελίδες
...been treated as an offence at common law, and is prohibited or restrained by statute. It is defined to be the unlawful maintenance of a suit, in consideration...of the thing in dispute, or some profit out of it. Champerty originally applied only to real actions, as it is derived from campum partire, because the... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1843 - 1068 σελίδες
...the champertor is to carry on the party s suit at his own expense, (y) It is defined in the old books to be, the unlawful maintenance of a suit, in consideration...of the thing in dispute, or some profit out of it (a) Little is to be met with in modern books upon this subject : but the statutes, and resolutions... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1844 - 294 σελίδες
...manifest, to send a challenge, is a misdemeanor. Rex v. Phillips, 6 East, 464. CHAMPEHTY. Champerty, the unlawful maintenance of a suit in consideration...of the thing in dispute, or some profit out of it, is a misdemeanor at common law. 1 Hawkins, c. 84. s. 1. This offence is rendered still more penal by... | |
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Russell states that it is defined in the old books to be the unlawful maintenance of a suit, in consideration of some bargain to have part of the thing in dispute, or some profit out of it. 
