 | Henry John Stephen - 1834 - 518 σελίδες
...shall direct the offender to be transported for seven years. 12. Maintenance. This consists in the officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs...party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend. — 4 Bl. C. 134. There are many acts in the nature of maintenance which are justifiable: — 1. Those... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1838 - 802 σελίδες
...adopted in our common law under the head of maintenance, which is described by the best authorities as an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs...assisting either party with money or otherwise to defend it ; and this is expressly charged as an offence against public justice— as tending to keep... | |
 | 1838 - 534 σελίδες
...offence that bears a near relation to barratry; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...either party with money, or otherwise to prosecute or défendit, — a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses.* Maintenance... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 σελίδες
...on the following passages from a certain work entitled JSlackstane's Cummenlaria : " MAINTENANCE is an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs...money, or otherwis'e, to prosecute or defend it.** It is an offence against public justice, as it keeps alive strife and contention and perverts the remedial... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1841 - 430 σελίδες
...the following passages from a certain work entitled Blackstones Commentaries : — " MAINTENANCE is an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs...with money, or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. * * It is an offence against public justice, as it keeps alive strife and contention, and perverts... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1841 - 490 σελίδες
...JNlainot liad a voice. See Greece and Maina. 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 Koman as well as by the English law. A man may, however, maintain the suit... | |
 | Warren - 1842 - 824 σελίδες
...the following passages from a certain work entitled Blacks/one's Commentaries.- — " MAINTENAKCE if, an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, bj 'maintaining5 or assisting cither party v.ilh money, or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. *... | |
 | Francis Vesey, Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1844 - 800 σελίδες
...maintenance. It is said by Blackstone to be an officious intermeddling in a suit, which no way belongs to me, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. 4 Black. Com. 135 ; 1 Hawkins, Pleas, b. 1, ch. 86, § 1. See Harrington v. Long, 2 M. & Keen, 592... | |
 | Illinois - 1845 - 766 σελίδες
...intermeddle in any suit at common law or in chancery, thatin 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... | |
 | 1846 - 608 σελίδες
...introduce into the law, it might be proper to take a review of the subject as it previously stood. way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either...party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it,—a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses. so to speak, had been... | |
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Eli/. с. 2, to be punished by six months' imprisonment, and treble damages to the party injured. 12. Maintenance 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... 
