 | Appellate courts - 1908 - 822 pages
...state. Kutcher v. Love, 19 Colo. 542, 546, 36 Pac. 152. At common law, maintenance is declared to be an "officious intermeddling in a suit that no way...or assisting either party with money or otherwise." Chit. Cont. 676; 4 Bl. Comm. 134. The definition of the same offense by the Colorado statute is somewhat... | |
 | Herbert Newman Mozley, George Crispe Whiteley, Frederick George Neave - Law - 1908 - 392 pages
...maintaining a lawsuit. [MAINTENANCE, 1.] MAINTENANCE. 1. An officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it. Not applicable to criminal proceedings. 4 Steph. Com. 2. Providing children, or other persons in a... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1908 - 772 pages
...to the former, being an officious intermeddling in a suit that *no way belongs to one, by maintaming or assisting either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it;(w) a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses.(u>) This is an offence... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1374 pages
...appear. The term "maintenance" is properly defined as an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it; and "champerty" is a species of maintenance, whereby a stranger makes a "bargain with a plaintiff or... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark - Electronic books - 1909 - 524 pages
...suits, either at common law or otherwise.1 Maintenance is the officious intermeddling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it.2 Champerty is a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant to divide the land or other matter sued for... | |
 | Southampton Record Society (Southampton, England) - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1909 - 170 pages
...manutenentiis1 ambii " Maintenance" Is an officious Intermeddling In an action that In no way belong* to one, by maintaining or assisting either party,...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend It. (The shareholder* of toe Druce-Foi tland Company are said to be guilty of maintenance.) within the... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1910 - 460 pages
...England called common barratry. One who officiously meddled in a suit that in no way belonged to him, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it, was considered guilty of another misdemeanor called maintenance, unless the party he assisted was his... | |
 | Clarence Degrand Ashley - Contracts - 1911 - 352 pages
...at law or otherwise." "Maintenance is an offense that bears a near relationship to the former, being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it." "Champerty ... is a species of maintenance, . . . being a bargain with the plaintiff ... to divide... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1064 pages
...that which constitutes maintenance. Blackstone calls it "an officious intermeddling in a suit which no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting...with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it." Blackstone, Commentaries, bk. 4, chap. 10, § 12. "Maintenance," says Lord Coke, "signifieth in law... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 824 pages
...Comm. 135.)" Oilman v. Jones, 87 Ala. 691, 5 So. 785, 789. "The offense of maintenance consists in the 'officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs'...either party, with money or otherwise, to prosecute it or defend it.' — t Blacks Com. 135." Williamson r. Sammons, 34 Ala. 691, 692. Story on Con., §... | |
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Eliz. c. 2, to be punished by six months' imprisonment, and treble damages to the party injured. Maintenance. 12. Maintenance is an offence that bears a near relation to the former, being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one,... 
