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
These untutored souls had no proper conception of barratry.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
He is such a litigious fellow, though; so persistent with it; barratry, champetry, mad incorrigibility: he's the wildest man of genius alive.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend
The case of the notorious Mrs. Winslow, indicted for common barratry, terminated to-day.
From The Spiritualists and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
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