Usually means: Funding lawsuits for a share.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. champerty: Merriam-Webster
  2. champerty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. champerty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. champerty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. champerty: Vocabulary.com
  6. champerty: Wordnik
  7. champerty: Wiktionary
  8. champerty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. champerty: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. champerty: Dictionary.com
  11. Champerty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Champerty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. champerty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Champerty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. champerty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. champerty: FreeDictionary.org
  17. champerty: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. champerty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. champerty: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. champerty: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. champerty: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. champerty: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Champerty: Legal dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. champerty: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See champertous as well.)

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noun:  (law) The investing of money into an individual's lawsuit.

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