Usually means: Financer of litigation for profit.
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  1. champertor: Merriam-Webster
  2. champertor: Wordnik
  3. champertor: Wiktionary
  4. Champertor: Dictionary.com
  5. Champertor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. champertor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Champertor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. champertor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. champertor: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Champertor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Champertor: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (champertor)

noun:  (historical, law) One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his or her own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

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