单词 | maintenance and champerty |
释义 | maintenance and champerty maintenance and champerty two former torts and crimes striking at a third party's support of another's litigation. Maintenance is the stirring up of litigation by supporting a party without having a just cause or excuse for so doing: Re Trepca Mines Ltd (No. 2) [1963] Ch.199. Champerty is where the person maintaining is to be paid out of the supported proceedings. Both were abolished as torts or crimes by the Criminal Law Act 1967. |
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