 | Timothy Walker - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 880
...champerty, as understood at common law. (a) Maintenance was "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." Champerty was " a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant to divide the land or other matter sued for... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 1002
...1. Definition and General Nature. — Maintenance is an officious intermeddling in a suit that noway belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either...party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it,3 and signifies an unlawful taking in hand or uphold1. Rapalje & Lawrence LD Where a statute incorporating... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...passages from Blackstom's Commentaries : — " MAINTENANCE is 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. ... It is an offence against public justice, as it keeps alive strife and contention, and perverts... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...See next title. Maintenance, an ofiicious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. By the Roman law, it was a species of crimen falti to enter into any confederacy, or do any act to support... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...of maintenance. Maintenance is denned by Blackstone as " mi officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it." And champerty is defined as " a species of maintenance, * * * being a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 1014
...adopted in this commonwealth. It is defined by Blackstone as " 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": 4 Bla. Com. 134. The grounds upon which contracts were held voidable for champerty or maintenance,... | |
 | Edward Bullen, Thomas Joseph Bullen - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 1210
...and in the said house. MAINTENANCE (я). (с) See " Reversion," post, p. 502. (a) Maintenance is "an officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either part}', with money or otherwise, to prosecute or deiend it." (4 Bl. Сопнп., с. 10, es. 12, 13... | |
 | Edward Whiton Spencer - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...public justice, are those savoring of champerty and maintenance. Maintenance has been denned as an officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. Champerty is maintenance aggravated by a bargain to have some part of the thing in dispute or some... | |
 | Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, George Savile Marquis of Halifax - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...disgrace. (See ante, vol. i. p. fi6.) 2 ' Maintenance is ... 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 ' (Stephen's Commentaries, 1858, iv. 303). * This curious use of 'wretch' as an equivalent of the Latin... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...an offence that bears a near relation to the former, 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; a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses. This is an offence against... | |
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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,... 
