Champerty
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CHAMPERTY, or Champarty (Lat. campi partitio, O. Fr. champ parti), in English law, a bargain between a plaintiff or defendant in a cause and another person, ...
Champerty An agreement between the party suing in a lawsuit (the plaintiff) and another person, who agrees to finance and carry the lawsuit in return for a percentage of the recovery. In some states, champerty is illegal.
Champerty
(n) Champerty is the agreement or understanding between the plaintiff and the attorney to decide the terms and mode of financing of the suit and sharing of the compensation when it is awarded.
Champerty:
When a person agrees to finance someone else's lawsuit in exchange for a portion of the judicial award.
Champerty
When a person agrees to finance someone else's lawsuit in exchange for a portion of the judicial award.
Chaste
A person who has never voluntarily had sexual intercourse outside of marriage such as unmarried virgins.
champerty
n. an agreement between the party suing in a lawsuit (plaintiff) and another person, usually an attorney, who agrees to finance and carry the lawsuit in return for a percentage of the recovery (money won and paid).
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.
"Champerty is an egregious form of maintenance in which there is the added element that the maintainer shares in the profits of the litigation.
"Importantly, without maintenance there can be no champerty.
At common law the offense of champerty and maintenance arose when a stranger bargained with a party to a legal action, undertaking to pay for the litigation in exchange for a promise of a portion of the recovery.
Champerty. 8. Compounding felonies. 9. Misprision of felonies. 10. Oppression. 11. Extortion. 12. Suppressing evidence. 13. Negligence or misconduct in inferior officers. 14. Obstructing legal process. 15. Embracery.
CAMPARTUM
A part or portion of a larger field or ground, which would otherwise be in gross or common. Vide Champerty.... more ...
Definition
: a fee for the services of a lawyer paid upon successful completion of the services and usu. calculated as a percentage of the gain obtained for the client
compare champerty maintenance
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