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champerty

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Noun — The investing of money into a third party's lawsuit in which one has no vested interest.

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From Middle English champartie, from Middle French champart (“field rent (portion of produce of field paid to feudal lord)”), probably from Latin campī (“fields”) + pars (“part”).

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