barratry

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Parker in mind, a Massachusetts congressman worked to amend the barratry law so that it would no longer be a capital offense.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2011

In any case, the entire, ever wistful publishing industry now chases riches through barratry, the offense of excessive litigation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ambulance chasing, barratry, capping, running, soliciting � by whatever name it is known, the practice of stir ring up law business is condemned by lawyers and laymen alike.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then I was domestic with the good King Thibault; here I set myself to doing barratry, of which I render reckoning in this heat.'

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)

A celebrated case of barratry was going on in 1863, the date of my first visit, when Lloyds sent out a detective and my friend Capt.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir