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CRIMINAL MAINTENANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
Example:
unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
Synonyms:
criminal maintenance; maintenance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("criminal maintenance" is a kind of...):
actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
