 | Colorado - Colorado - 1877 - 1182 pages
...meddle in any suit at common law or in chancery, that in nowise belongs to or concerns such person, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend such .suit, with a view to promote litigation, every such person so offending shall be deemed to have... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1877 - 640 pages
...imprisonment, and treble damages to the party injured. 11. Maintenance bears a near relation to the former ; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. A man may however maintain... | |
 | Milo Adams McClelland - 1877 - 588 pages
...intermeddle in any suit at common law or in chancery, that in nowise belongs to or concerns such persons, by maintaining or assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend such suit, with a view to promote litigation, he shall be deemed guilty of maintenance, and upon conviction... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1877 - 526 pages
...distinguish themselves in the Greek revolution. 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 of... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal law - 1878 - 486 pages
...Mewburn v. Street, 21 QB (Ont.), 498. MAINTENANCE. This is the officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. It is a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. Champerty is a species of maintenance. It... | |
 | Joseph Alexander Shearwood - Bar examinations - 1879 - 456 pages
...(Br. CL 456). 52 Maintenance is an officious meddling with a suit which in nowise concerns one, by assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. Champerty is a bargain between a party to a suit and a third person to divide the subject-matter sued... | |
 | Edward Henslowe Bedford - Law - 1879 - 308 pages
...VII. OFFENCES AGAINST JUSTICE. What is maintenance ? It is the officious intermeddling in a suit by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. What is champerty ? It is derived from the words campuin partire, and is a species of maintenance,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2026 pages
...common law also punished as a crime the offense of maintenance, which is described by Blackstone as "an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it." 4 Blackstone, 135. This he declares is an offense against public justice, as it keeps alive strife... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1116 pages
...state. Kutcher v. Love, 19 Colo. 542, 546, 36 Pac. 152. At common law, maintenance is declared to be an "officious intermeddling in a suit that no way...or assisting either party with money or otherwise." Chit. Cont. 6/6; 4 Bl. Comm. 134. The definition of the same offense by the Colorado statute is somewhat... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - Equity - 1880 - 716 pages
...Maintenance, of which champerty is a species, is properly an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. Each of these is punishable both at the Common Law and by statute, as tending to keep alive strife... | |
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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,... 
