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
A person who committed barratry would commit anything.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
"According to public report," said the decree, "they committed barratry, sought illicit gains, and practiced unjust extortions of money or goods."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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 John T. (John Theodore) Slattery
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