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

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke