Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

champerty

n. 1. An agreement between a stranger to a lawsuit and a litigant by which the stranger pursues the litigant's claim as consideration for receiving part of any judgment proceeds. 2. The act or fact of maintaining, supporting, or promoting another person's lawsuit. Cf. MAINTENANCE (6)."There is disagreement in the American courts as to what constitutes champerty. (1) Some courts hold that an agreement to look to the proceeds of the suit for compensation is champerty .... (2) Some courts hold that in addition the attorney must prosecute