The heavy fines by the Star Court put an end to conspiracies to defraud, champerty [an agreement with a litigant to pay costs of litigation for a share in the damages awarded], livery, and maintenance.
It is not, however, champerty to charge the subject-matter of a suit in order to obtain the means of prosecuting it.
By many authorities champerty is defined as an agreement of this nature.
From early times the offence of champertyhas been forbidden and punishable.
In England, contingent fees are held to be clearly within the statutes of champerty and maintenance.
None of the English statutes on the subject of champerty have been reported as in force here; but it was once a question whether it was not an offence at common law, independently altogether, of any statute enactment.
That champerty is an offence at common law, and that contracts of that character, between client and counsel, are void on that ground, and as against public policy, will be found to have been maintained in Rust v.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "champerty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
