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单词 champerty
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Definition of champerty in English:

champerty

noun ˈtʃampətiˈtʃæmpərdi
mass nounLaw
  • An illegal agreement in which a person with no previous interest in a lawsuit finances it with a view to sharing the disputed property if the suit succeeds.

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    Example sentencesExamples
    • Historically, English and American common law has prohibited champerty - and officially, that is still the American rule.
    • The rules have been around since the mediaeval laws about champerty and barratry.
    • It is said to be Victoria where the agreement is made, a State in which maintenance and champerty is no longer unlawful, perhaps not even tortious.
    • It is a defence to the tort of maintenance or champerty that the person interfering in the litigation has an interest recognised by law in the proceedings.
    • First, that ought to weigh with the court in considering, in connection with the law of champerty, whether the agreement into which he entered was justifiable.

Derivatives

  • champertous

  • adjective
    Law
    • In our contention the Court of Appeal wrongly regarded the 1993 Act as abolishing more than the consequences in criminal law and in tort of champertous conduct.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In any event even if they themselves were a firm of solicitors their agreement would be champertous.
      • It is possible, but exceptional, to be able to justify a champertous agreement on the basis of common interest.
      • A champertous agreement was illegal and void, involving as it did criminal conduct.
      • The Court of Appeal agreed with the Master that the agreements were not champertous.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French champartie, from Old French champart 'feudal lord's share of produce', from Latin campus 'field' + pars 'part'.

Definition of champerty in US English:

champerty

nounˈCHampərdēˈtʃæmpərdi
Law
  • An illegal agreement in which a person with no previous interest in a lawsuit finances it with a view to sharing the disputed property if the suit succeeds.

    〔律〕包揽诉讼,帮诉

    Example sentencesExamples
    • First, that ought to weigh with the court in considering, in connection with the law of champerty, whether the agreement into which he entered was justifiable.
    • It is a defence to the tort of maintenance or champerty that the person interfering in the litigation has an interest recognised by law in the proceedings.
    • Historically, English and American common law has prohibited champerty - and officially, that is still the American rule.
    • The rules have been around since the mediaeval laws about champerty and barratry.
    • It is said to be Victoria where the agreement is made, a State in which maintenance and champerty is no longer unlawful, perhaps not even tortious.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French champartie, from Old French champart ‘feudal lord's share of produce’, from Latin campus ‘field’ + pars ‘part’.

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