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Champarty or champerty [fr. Champ parti, Fr.; campi partitio, Lat., a division of the land], properly a bargain between a plaintiff or defendant in a suit and a third person, campum partire, to divide between them the land or other matter sued for in the event of the litigant being successful in the suit, whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's suit or action at his own expense; or it is the purchasing the right of action or suit of another person; illegal by Common Law, and also by 3 Edw. 1, c. 25; 13 Edw. 1, st. , c. 9; and 32 Hen. 8, c. 9. It is an aggravated form of maintenance, See Hutley v. Hutley, (1873) LR 8 Q 112; Attorneys and Solicitors Act (in re:), 1870 (1875) 1 Ch D 573; Holden v. Thompson, 1907 (2) KB 489; Haseldine v. Hoskin, 1933 KB 822; and MAINTENANCE.

The act or fact of maintaining, supporting or promoting another persons law suit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.