In response, the Department of Justice and the Law Society of Hong Kong carried out a massive publicity campaign aiming at educating the public to refuse recovery agents, citing that maintenance and champerty are criminal offences under the laws of Hong Kong.
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The Virginia NAACP filed suit in federal court in 1956 against the Attorney General of Virginia to have the five barratry, champerty, and maintenance laws thrown out as an unconstitutional infringement of the 1st Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
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He concluded a corrupt bargain, known to lawyers as champerty, with Lady Anne Powis, who was suing in his court to recover possession of land to which she claimed to be entitled from d, and of concealing a felony committed by his servant.
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In addition to the pupil placement, school closure and school voucher laws overtly supporting segregation, the Stanley plan included seven laws expanding the common law legal offenses of champerty, maintenance, barratry, running and capping, as well as the statutory violation of unauthorized practice of law.
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"' Section 13 "'abolished the common law offences of champerty and barratry, challenging to fight, eavesdropping or being " a common scold or a common night walker . " It also repealed the offence of praemunire, which had survived on the statute books since 1392.
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"To say the least, a finding of champerty as a matter of law might engender uncertainties in the free market system in connection with untold numbers of sophisticated business transactions, " the court said, " a not insignificant potentiality in the state that harbors the financial capital of the world ."
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In a 6-to-3 ruling in 1963 that gave broad protection to public interest legal organizations, the U . S . Supreme Court in " NAACP v . Button ", held that all five of the barratry, champerty, and maintenance laws violated the 1st and 14th Amendments to the constitution.
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The bank countered that Bluebird Partners violated one of the most venerable legal doctrines, namely one called " champerty . " " Champerty " prohibits the buying and selling of rights in a law suit, which United Jersey Bank said Bluebird Partners did by buying the discounted Continental Airlines bonds with the intent of suing the bank.
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The bank countered that Bluebird Partners violated one of the most venerable legal doctrines, namely one called " champerty . " " Champerty " prohibits the buying and selling of rights in a law suit, which United Jersey Bank said Bluebird Partners did by buying the discounted Continental Airlines bonds with the intent of suing the bank.
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:It's not quite a match, but perhaps Barratry ( common law ) or the things listed in its see-also section ( supporting, champerty ) are what's on the tip of your brain-but they're all for litigation that is itself somewhat vexatious, rather than costs which are vexatious .-- Talk 00 : 42, 12 December 2014 ( UTC)
