barratry

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

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)

The instances of barratry and of common scolds, I believe, are the only exceptions.

From The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 by Gurney, William Brodie

I saw at once that here was a case of barratry of the master, and that the letter would jeopardize the whole affair of the insurance.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis