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Persistent incitement to litigation
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barratry
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Barratry is a legal term with several meanings. it can refer to: Barratry (common law) , litigation for the purpose of harassment or profit Ambulance chasing , when a lawyer seeks clients at a disaster site Barratry (admiralty law) , misconduct by crew ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barratry \Bar"ra*try\, n. [Cf. F. baraterie, LL. barataria. See Barrator , and cf. Bartery .] (Law) The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry .] --Coke. Blackstone. (Mar. Law) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of persistently instigate lawsuits, often groundless ones 2 the sale and/or purchase of political positions of power 3 (context admiralty legal English) unlawful or fraudulent acts by the crew of a vessel, harming the vessel's owner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "sale of ecclesiastical or state offices," from Old French baraterie "deceit, guile, trickery," from barat "malpractice, fraud, deceit, trickery," which is of unknown origin, perhaps from Celtic. In marine law, "wrongful conduct by a ship's ...
Usage examples of barratry.
Buried deep in the anthracite core of my being is a personal trait so hideous, so confounding, a conceit so terrible in its repercussions, that it makes sodomy, pederasty, and barratry on the high seas seem as tame as a Frances Parkinson Keyes novel.
Losian of every crime from barratry to mopery and dopery in the spaceways.
But Captain Krausa listened quietly, then answered with real poetryhe accused the Losian of every crime from barratry to mopery and dopery in the spaceways.
Murder most foul, alarums and excursions, theft, buggery, barratry, incomplete perfusion!
He charged malfeasance, he charged treason, murder, blackmail, piracy, simony, forgery, kidnapping, barratry, attempted rape, mental cruelty, indecent exposure, and subornation of perjury.
Computer malfeasance, memory bank barratry, CPU violation, terminal treachery, dropping solder on classified documents-it was terrible.
If Brennan tried to repeat this program, James Holden was very apt to suggest either the rather rare case of Barratry or Maintenance against Brennan.
It was barratry, an insurance swindle, and would have succeeded but for the storm.
Her father was a Dutchman who had lived adventurously in and about the South Seas, indulging in barratry and piracy, and dying at last on the gibbet for murder.
When arrangements for a bit of barratry of this kind are gone about nowadays, they are performed with shrewdness.
Murgatroyd, the mate, was the only man on board in whose honesty Kettle had the least faith, simply because he considered him too stupid to be intrusted with any operation so delicate as barratry, and to Murgatroyd he more or less confided his intentions.
By the time Sir Thomas More wrote his biography of Richard, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, Richard was being accused of everything but barratry and arson.
This entrepreneur of iniquity, unsatisfied with his endless violations in personam of the civil liberties of our sovereign people, did knowingly and with malice pro pense operate his loathesome trade in barratry.
He charged malfeasance, he charged treason, murder, blackmail, piracy, simony, forgery, kidnapping, barratry, attempted rape, mental cruelty, indecent exposure, and subornation of perjury.