Champerty
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
crimes, is 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, the champertor undertaking to carry on the suit at his own expense. This offence differs from maintenance, in this, that in the latter the person assisting the suitor receives no benefit, while in the former he receives one half of the thing sued for. Punishment fine and imprisonment.
4 Bl. Com. 135.
This was an offence in the civil law. Poth. Pand. lib.
3, t. 1.
App. n.
1, tom. 3, p. 104.