Pardon our excitement, but Eric Turkewitz has included our "Got Champerty" post in his Friday Linkworthy on New York Personal Injury Law Blog. Alright, Eric!
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Second Circuit Answers “Got Champerty?” Question
By Barry Barnett on
In February of last year, Blawgletter posted this item:
Got Champerty?
Often a yoke companion to maintenance, champerty means . . . what?
Our law school Black's Law Dictionary (5th ed. 1979) defines the crime as:
A bargain by a stranger with a party to a suit, by which such third person undertakes to carry on the litigation
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