 | 1791 - 568 pages
...manner, being a bargain . . . or clefendant campum partlre, to divide the land or other matter fued for between them, if they prevail at law ; whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's fuit at his own expence. i.Hawk.PC T3- COMPOUNDING INFORMATION'S. By iS. T»7- Eliz. c. 5. if any perlbn,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 pages
...being a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant campum partire, to divide die land or other matter fued for between them, if they prevail at law ; whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's fuit at his own expence '. Thus chutnpart, in the French law, fignifies a fimilar divifion of profits,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 454 pages
...CHAMPERTRY, in law, a fpecies of MAINTEKANCE, and punimed in the fame manner; being a bargain with the plaintiff or defendant campum partire, " to divide the land," or other matter fued for between them, if they prevail at law ; whereupon the champcrtror is to carry on the party's... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 pages
...a bargain •with a plaintiff or defendant campntn partire, to divide ehe Jand or other matter fued for between them, if they prevail at law ; whereupon the champertor is to cany on the party's fait at his own expence". Thus cbampart, in the French law, fignifies a fimilar... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 820 pages
...CHAMPERTRY, in Law, a fpecies of MAINTENANCE, and punilhed in the fame manner; being «a bargain with the plaintiff or defendant campum partire, " to divide the land," or other matter fued for, between them, if they prevail at law •, whereupon the champertror is to carry on the party's... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - 1811 - 214 pages
...punished in the same manner ; being a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant to divide the land, or matter sued for, between them, if they prevail at...champertor is to carry on the party's suit at his own expense. The word therefore signifies the purchasing of a suit or right of suing. A practice so much... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 862 pages
...a bargain with the plaintiff or defendant campum partiré, to divide the land, or other matter fucd for between them, if they prevail at law ; whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's fuit at his own expence. Champert, in the ci-devant French law, ligniI'ied a fimilar divifion of profits,... | |
 | 1816 - 844 pages
...a bargain with the plaintiff or defendant campum par/ire, to divide the land, or other matter fued for between them, if they prevail at law ; whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's i'uit at his own expence. Champert, in the ci-devant French law, fignified a fimi.lar divifion of profits,... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1818 - 762 pages
...being a birgain with a plaintiff or defendant, campum portire, to divide the land or other matter fued for between them, if they prevail at law ; whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's fuit at his own expence. In another fenfe of the word, it fignifies the purchafing of :\ fuit, or right... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1818 - 762 pages
...Champerty, campi-partitio, is a fpecies of maintenance, and punifhed in the fame manner; being a birgain with a plaintiff or defendant, campum partire, to divide the land or other matter fued for between them, if they prevail at law ; whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's... | |
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Champerty is a species of maintenance and punished in the- same manner ; being a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant, campum partire, to divide the land or other matter sued for between them, if they prevail at law : whereupon the champertor is to carry... 
