barratry

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barratry

(băr′ă-trē)

The practice of encouraging or sponsoring legal actions, esp. frivolous or unnecessary lawsuits.

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Reese's statements as the basis for indicting Fred Gray under Alabama's barratry statute.

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Here the author shows how the sin of barratry and these grafters should be derided by everyone; surely any such reprehensible sound signifies derision.

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members does not raise traditional barratry concerns.

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An' fer attempted barratry they'll stuff him in the hokey-pokey fer the next ten--Hey!

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Funding companies also must steer clear of states that enforce the centuries-old legal doctrines of champerty, barratry, and maintenance, which prohibit nonparties from promoting or investing in lawsuits.

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Professor Williams was sympathetic, but he explained that if I entered the barrios to solicit business I would be committing barratry and be subject to disbarment.

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Webster's defines barratry as "the practice of exciting and encouraging or maintaining lawsuits or quarrels: the persistent incitement of litigation." The judiciary used to punish barratry.

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A former Texas attorney is headed to prison on charges of insurance fraud and barratry for a scheme involving fraudulent lawsuits filed after hail storms, the Texas Department of Insurance announced.

Texas Attorney Sentenced for Insurance Fraud Involving Hail Claims

In November, a Montgomery County jury found him guilty of five barratry counts in an "ambulance-chasing for profit" scheme and sentenced him to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

State Rep. Reynolds' Law License Suspended as He Appeals Convictions

of the seas, fires, assailing thieves, pirates, rovers, jettisons, barratry of the Master and Mariners, and all other like losses.

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