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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope