barratry
Example Sentences
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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
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)
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 Townsend, George Alfred
"Yes," said Mr. Meyer, "he owns stock; and we insure against barratry; but this man, as part owner, could not fall back on it."
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Robertson, Morgan
