Maintenance and Champerty in Tort
Maintenance means aiding a party in civil proceedings by pecuniary assistance or otherwise, without lawful justification. Maintenance is both a tort and crime. The essence of the offence is intermeddling with litigation in which the intermeddler has no concern.1 “It seemeth that….. maintenance and champerty is strictly prohibited by the Common Law as being a
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