 Eliz. c. 2., to be punished by six months' imprisonment, and treble damages to the party injured. 12. MAINTENANCE is an offence that bears a near relation to the former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that 135 ] no way belongs to one, by...  Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another] - Page 131de sir William Blackstone - 1825Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1829 - 654 pages
...day. MAINTENANCE, in Law, nearly the same as Barretry, being 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 This is an offence against public justice ; though a man may with impunity maintain the cause of his... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...bears a near relation to Barretry ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that does not belong to one, by maintaining or assisting either party,...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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pages
...Mainot had a voice. (See Greece, and .Vaina.) MAINTENANCE; an unlawful intermeddling in a suit, by assisting either party with money, or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. This was prohibited by the Roman as well as by ihe English law. A man may, however, maintain the suit... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 628 pages
...everv Mainot had a voice. (See Greece, ami Maina.) MAINTENANCE; an unlawful intermeddling in a suit, by assisting either party with money, or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. This was prohibited by the Roman as well as by the English law. A man may, however, maintain the suit... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1834 - 626 pages
...offence that leads a near relation to barratry ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit tlial in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...defend it, a practice that was greatly encouraged by tho introduction of uses ; 4 Comm. c. 10. p. 134. Maintaininco is either ruralis, in tho country ;... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1834 - 850 pages
...(2). Maintenance of suits, which is a public offence, is the officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it (a). Champerty is the purchasing a suit or right of action of another person ; or rather it is a bargain... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1834 - 518 pages
...transported for seven years. 12. Maintenance. This consists in the officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend. — 4 Bl. C. 134. There are many acts in the nature of maintenance which are justifiable: — 1. Those... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1835 - 862 pages
...an offence that bears a near relation to barretry ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses. 4 Comm. c. 10. p. 134. Maintenance is either ruralis, in the country; as where one assists another... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 pages
...w«» encouraged by the tirst inno way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either trociucUon of party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend...greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses (w). This is an offence against public justice, as *it keeps alive strife and contention, and perverts... | |
 | 1838 - 534 pages
...offence that bears a near relation to barratry; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...either party with money, or otherwise to prosecute or défendit, — a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses.* Maintenance... | |
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