| Popular encyclopedia - 1877 - 526 σελίδες
...distinguish themselves in the Greek revolution. MAINTENANCE, an unlawful intermeddling in a suit, by assisting either party with money, or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. This was prohibited by the Roman as well as by the English law. A man may, however, maintain the suit... | |
| Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1878 - 486 σελίδες
...Mewburn v. Street, 21 QB (Ont.), 498. MAINTENANCE. This is 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. It is a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. Champerty is a species of maintenance. It... | |
| Edward Henslowe Bedford - 1879 - 308 σελίδες
...VII. OFFENCES AGAINST JUSTICE. What is maintenance ? It is the officious intermeddling in a suit by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. What is champerty ? It is derived from the words campuin partire, and is a species of maintenance,... | |
| Joseph Alexander Shearwood - 1879 - 456 σελίδες
...(Br. CL 456). 52 Maintenance is an officious meddling with a suit which in nowise concerns one, by assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. Champerty is a bargain between a party to a suit and a third person to divide the subject-matter sued... | |
| 1919 - 2026 σελίδες
...the common law also punished as a crime the offense of maintenance, which is described by Blackstone as "an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it." 4 Blackstone, 135. This he declares is an offense against public justice, as it keeps alive strife and... | |
| 1903 - 1116 σελίδες
...state. Kutcher v. Love, 19 Colo. 542, 546, 36 Pac. 152. At common law, maintenance is declared to be an "officious intermeddling in a suit that no way...or assisting either party with money or otherwise." Chit. Cont. 6/6; 4 Bl. Comm. 134. The definition of the same offense by the Colorado statute is somewhat... | |
| Josiah William Smith - 1880 - 716 σελίδες
...Maintenance, of which champerty is a species, is properly an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. Each of these is punishable both at the Common Law and by statute, as tending to keep alive strife... | |
| 1897 - 1040 σελίδες
...intermeddle in a suit at common law or in 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, every such person so offending shall be deemed to have... | |
| California - 1881 - 820 σελίδες
...is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1 Maintenance and Champerty. — Blackstone defines maintenance to be, "an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it." 4 Bl. Com. 134. The same writer defines champerty to be, "a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant, eampum... | |
| California - 1881 - 806 σελίδες
...Pearson, 55 Cal. 472. J, Maintenance and Champerty.—Blackstono defines maintenance to be, " an olficious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one,...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it." 4 Bl. Com. 134. The same writer defines champerty to be, "a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant, carnpum... | |
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