Associations to the word «Champerty»

Wiktionary

CHAMPERTY, noun. (legal) investing money into an individual’s law suit.

Dictionary definition

CHAMPERTY, noun. An unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded; "soliciting personal injury cases may constitute champerty".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne