 | Timothy Walker - Law - 1887 - 880 pages
...at common law. (a) Maintenance was "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." Champerty was " a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant to divide the land or other matter sued... | |
 | John I. Bennett - Lis pendens - 1887 - 534 pages
...champerty. SEC. 263. Maintenance is 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 defend it. (2) This was an offense at common law and punishable by fine and imprisonment, and by English statute... | |
 | Illinois - Law - 1889 - 2184 pages
...or in chancery that in nowise belongs to or concerns such person, by maintaining or assisting cither party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend...conviction thereof, shall be fined and punished as in cases of common barratry ; Proi'iJcd, that it shall not be considered maintenance for a man to maintain... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Legal stories - 1889 - 542 pages
...Commentaries : — " 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... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 542 pages
...Maintenance is denned by Blackstone as " mi 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." And champerty is defined as " a species of maintenance, * * * being a bargain with a plaintiff... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...relation to common barratry ; 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. 11. When is maintenance not an offense ? — 135. Where a man maintains the suit of his near kinsman,... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1892 - 956 pages
...our first volume, 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." a 2. Why Punishable. — It was said in a modern case that the criminality of maintenance is derived... | |
 | Charles Andrew Ray - Antitrust law - 1892 - 580 pages
..."maintainance." That is defined as 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 his action. "The offense is against public justice . . . and perverts the remedial process of the law... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1896 - 906 pages
...is when one officiously intermeddles in a suit depending in any Court, which no way belongs to him, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it(/). It is indictable both at common law Champerty, and by statute, and is also actionable (y). Champerty... | |
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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,... 
