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champerty

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Noun — Putting money into someone else's legal case even though you have no personal stake in its outcome.

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Etymology

From Middle English champartie, from Middle French champart ("field rent, the portion of a field's produce paid to a feudal lord"), probably from Latin campī ("fields") plus pars ("part").

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