 | William Blackstone - 1885 - 626 páginas
...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. One may however maintain the suit of his kinsman, servant, or poor neighbour, out of charity with impunity.... | |
 | 1886 - 900 páginas
...of common right:" 1 Hawk. PI. 464. It is also said to be "an 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:" 4 Bla. Com. 134. The gist of the offense is, that the intermeddling is unlawful; that it is officious,... | |
 | John I. Bennett - 1887 - 534 páginas
...lien.(l) Maintenance and champerty. SEC. 263. Maintenance is an 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. (2) This was an offense at common law and punishable by fine and imprisonment, and by English statute... | |
 | Timothy Walker - 1887 - 880 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1889 - 542 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - 1897 - 838 páginas
...Maintenance. This is similar to the last mentioned offence, being an officious intermeddling in a suit, that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...otherwise, to prosecute or defend it ; a practice which was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses. This is an offence against public justice,... | |
 | American Street Railway Association - 1902 - 1444 páginas
...Cases. Maintenance at the common law was an officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belonged to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it. It was an offense against public justice, as it kept alive strife and contention and perverted the... | |
 | Edward Whiton Spencer - 1898 - 716 páginas
...champerty and maintenance. Maintenance has been denned as an 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. 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 - 612 páginas
...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... | |
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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,... 
