Plural of barretry; multiple instances of the crime of maliciously stirring up quarrels, fights, or lawsuits for profit.
From barretry with the plural suffix '-ies.' Barretry itself comes from Old French 'baraterie,' a maritime and legal term.
Barretry wasn't just about regular lawsuits—it originally referred to maritime fraud where ship captains would deliberately cause damage to cargo to collect insurance money!
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