| Edmund Burke - History - 1882 - 776 pages
...Maintenance is, according to Blackstone, ' an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it.' Sir J. Ingham, however, before whom the application for a summons against Mr. Newdegate was heard,... | |
| History - 1882 - 716 pages
...Maintenance is, according to Blackstone, ' an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it.' Sir J. Ingham, however, before whom the application for a summons against Mr. Newdegate was heard,... | |
| Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1811 - 214 pages
...near relation to the former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it : A practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses. This is an offence against... | |
| Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...MAINTENANCE. . . .}\. . •.. , ' Maintenance is an officious intermeddling in a suit that ^ay belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. ' A man may lawfully maintain the suit of his near kinsman, cerVant. or poor neighbour, out of... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...near relation to the former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. A man may however maintain the suit of his near kinsman, servant, or poor neighbour, out of charity... | |
| Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...illegal and void, (x) Maintenance is an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. It is an offence against public justice, as it keeps alive strife and contention, and perverts... | |
| sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...relation to the former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that 135 ] no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it ° : a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses *. This is an offence... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...relation to the former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that 135 ] no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it • : a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses w. This is an offence... | |
| Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...near relation to tho former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs 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... | |
| Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 522 pages
...relation to common barratry ; and is an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it.* It is an offence against public justice ; as it keeps alive strife and contention, and perverts... | |
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