A variant or related term to champerty, referring to the illegal practice of supporting or financing a lawsuit in exchange for a share of the gains.
Alternate or related form of 'champerty,' from Old French legal terminology describing a disreputable practice that medieval common law attempted to regulate.
The existence of 'champert' as an alternate form shows how hard medieval lawyers tried to stamp out lawsuit fraud—they created multiple legal terms to describe it, kind of like how we now have multiple words for internet scams!
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