Perjurers, forgers, those involved in barratry or suborning perjury, and pretenders practicing as attorneys or solicitors in the courts of law or equity shall be transported for seven years to the American colonies.
By a statute of 1726, if the person guilty of common barratry belonged to the profession of the law, he was disabled from practising in the future.
In Scotland, barratry is the crime committed by a judge who is induced by bribery to pronounce judgment.
In marine insurance barratry is any kind of fraud committed upon the owner or insurers of a ship by a master with the intention of benefiting himself at their expense.
If Brennan tried to repeat this program, James Holden was very apt to suggest either the rather rare case of Barratry or Maintenance against Brennan.
Barratry consists of the constant harassment of a citizen by the serial entry of lawsuit after lawsuit against him, each of which he must defend to the loss of time and money--and the tying up of courts and their officials.
He looked at barratry from every side, and the more he looked the less he seemed to like it.
A person who committed barratry would commit anything.
