 | William Longman - Great Britain - 1869 - 502 pages
...c. xi. Maintenance is defined by Blackstone to mean "an officious intermeddling in a suit that noway belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it." Champerty is described as a species of maintenance, being a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant Campum... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - Conveyancing - 1870 - 730 pages
...Maintenance, of which champerty is a species, is properly an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. And an agreement whereby a person engages to supply information and evidence for the recovery of property,... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 pages
...hold; L. Lat manutentio, manutenentia.] In criminal law. An officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money, or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it 4" Bl. Com. 134. Termes de la Ley. 4 Kenfs Com. 447, note. Literally, a taking in hand ; a bearing... | |
 | Wyoming - Law - 1870 - 808 pages
...intermeddle '"*' in any suit at common law or in chancery, that in 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 ; evefy such person so offending shall be deemed to have... | |
 | John Wade - Law - 1871 - 946 pages
...imprisonment and treble damages. intermeddling in a quarrel or snit that no way belongs to one, by assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. It is punishable with fine and imprisonment. A man may, however, maintain the suit of his near kinsman,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 574 pages
...common law." " Maintenance is defined K.ey v. Vattier. to be an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money, or otherwise to prosecute or defend it." It is an offense against public justice, as it keeps alive strife and contention, and perverts the... | |
 | William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 386 pages
...offence that bears a near relation to common barratry, being an officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one ; by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. This is an offence against public justice, as it keeps alive strife and contention, and perverts the... | |
 | John Henderson Begg - Lawyers - 1873 - 602 pages
...Edw. I. st. 1. c. 49; 32 Hen. VIII. c. 9. Maintenance is "an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it;" while champerty is "a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant campum partire, to divide the land, or... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1874 - 724 pages
...offence that bears a near relation to the former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...defend it(^): a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses (A). This is an offence against justice, as it keeps alive strife and... | |
 | Henry Foulks Lynch - Law - 1874 - 460 pages
...suit at his own expense. Maintenance is properly an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no ways belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. Exceptions are made, however, to the rule against champerty and maintenance in the case of father and... | |
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Eliz. c. 2, to be punished by six months' imprisonment, and treble damages to the party injured. Maintenance. 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,... 
