| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 σελίδες
...in hand, or upholding of any caueeor регион, — the officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. By the common law, persone guilty of maintenance may be prosecuted by indictment, and be fined and... | |
| 1064 σελίδες
...338, 4th ed. ; F. Bk. 311 ; Exam. Quest. 147.) XIV. What is the offence of maintenance 1 ANS. It is an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it (Bacon's Abr. Maintenance ; 4 Steph. Com. 303, 4th... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 726 σελίδες
...intermeddle in any suit at common law or chancery that in nowise belongs to or concerns such person, by maintaining or assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend such suit with a view to promote litigation, he shall be deemed guilty of maintenance, and upon conviction... | |
| Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 770 σελίδες
...party injured.] XII. \_Mainte.nance is an offence that bears a near relation to the former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting cither party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it ( i) : a practice that was greatly... | |
| New York (State). Commissioners of the Code, David Dudley Field - 1864 - 372 σελίδες
...animals, by section 699. Maintenance. Officiously intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one ; by assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. In so far as intervening in a single lawsuit in which one is not a party, is criminal by our existing... | |
| William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1864 - 520 σελίδες
...a conspiracy. Maintenance is an officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by assisting either party with money, or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it ; or, strictly speaking, it is the assistance of another person in a law suit, without having any privity... | |
| William Blackstone - 1865 - 642 σελίδες
...to the party injured. 11. Maintenance is an offence that bears a near relation to the former; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. A man may however maintain the suit of his near kinsman, servant, or poor neighbour, out of charity... | |
| Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1865 - 806 σελίδες
...§ 127 [105]. This offence was in our previous volume defined, in the words of Blackstone, to be " an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it." 8 In a modern case it was said : "Combinations against individuals are dangerous in themselves, and... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 σελίδες
...to the party injured. 12. Maintenance is an offence that bears» near relation to the former, being an officious intermeddling in a suit that *no way belongs to one, by main- r*i 35 taining or assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute ^ or defend it;(u)... | |
| William Thomas Brande - 1866 - 992 σελίδες
...hand). In Law, an officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining and assisting either party with money, or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. The punishment by common law is fine and imprisonment, and by 32 Hen. VIII. c. 9 a forfeiture of ten... | |
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