champerty
champerty is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Partnership in power; equal share of authority. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Partnership in power; equal share of authority.
- noun. The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance.
- noun. an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded
"soliciting personal injury cases may constitute champerty"
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