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UK
/bˈæɹətɹˌi/
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NOUN
- the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels
- (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo
- traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments
- the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery
How To Use barratry In A Sentence
- That is why I referred to barratry and the old common law rules about maintenance and champerty.
- He openly taints his request with a subtle legal threat, not learning in the past year that barratry is no way to gain understanding from others, not to mention the fact he hasn't sued anyone he has threatened.
- Based on past experience, I believe that this earns him an indulgence from the Online Left on anything up to barratry (naval definition). Outrageously outrageous outrage* of the day: Rush Limbaugh electric car edition. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
- In another oration of Demosthenes we discover glimpses of what by many has been deemed maritime insurance, or rather of the fraud at present called barratry, which is practised to defraud the insurer: but, as Park in his learned Treatise on Marine Insurance has satisfactorily proved, the ancients were certainly ignorant of maritime insurance; though there can be no doubt frauds similar to those practised at present were practised. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson
- That is why I referred to barratry and the old common law rules about maintenance and champerty.
- Texas law prohibits anyone from soliciting clients for lawyers - a third-degree felony known as barratry, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Brownsville Herald :
- They accuse Mr. Davis of the torts of barratry and malicious prosecution.
- Thereafter, owners changed their case to assert, and assert only, that Komiseris had sunk the vessel deliberately without their privity and that the loss had thus occurred by barratry.
- The police are on the way to charge you with attempted swinicide, assault and battery, kidnapping, grievous bodily harm and barratry. 2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
- Barratry can be identified in two forms within an admiralty context and seamen should be aware.
