单词 | champerty |
释义 | champerty (once / 358161 pages) n WORD FAMILY champerty USAGE EXAMPLESThere are two forms of third-party funding: maintenance and champerty. The New Yorker(May 27, 2016) Though the word was associated with feudal land grabs, Radin notes that in practice, champerty was used by rich lawyers ‘‘on behalf of propertied defendants.’’ New York Times(Oct 22, 2015) Champerty is frequently exciting and stirring up quarrels either at law or otherwise. Forbes(Nov 10, 2014) n an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded soliciting personal injury cases may constitute champerty Hyper actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct activity that transgresses moral or civil law |
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