Champerty and Maintenance
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Champerty · Maintenance · champerty · maintenance · vexatious litigation
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1 expressionMaintenance and champerty1 mention
The Law of Torts (English)
Harris v.
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
English common-law doctrines restricting trafficking in disputed claims, offered as a parallel to the Roman rule against alienating litigious property.
Compare the prohibition of Champerty and Maintenance in English law.
The Law of Torts
The wrong of maintaining (financially or otherwise supporting) another's litigation without a lawful interest or justification.
Harris v.
As to what will amount to a common interest in a suit so as to justify maintenance, Alabaster v.