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CRIMINAL MAINTENANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does criminal maintenance mean?
• CRIMINAL MAINTENANCE (noun)
The noun CRIMINAL MAINTENANCE has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CRIMINAL MAINTENANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
criminal maintenance; maintenance
Context example:
unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
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)
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