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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his or her own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain. historical

Etymology

From French champarteur (“a divider of fields or field rent”). See champerty.

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