单词 | champertor |
释义 | † champertorn. Obsolete. One guilty of champerty. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > illegal involvement in a suit > one who maintainera1325 champertorc1503 1383 Act 7 Rich. II c. 15 §1 Des meyntenors des quereles & chaumpertors.] c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxij/2 Mayntener of quarels Champertour Enbracer of questis or other comon mysdoers. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. iv. 438 A Champartour, that is to say, on that mooueth pleas or sutes..at his owne costes, to the end to have part of the land or other thing in variance. 1668 H. Rolle Abridgm. 53 Thou art a common maintainer of Suits, and a Champertor, and I will have thee thrown over the Bar next Terme. 1816 Edinb. Rev. 354 Calling the plaintiff a champertor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1503 |
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