Lexicographical Neighbors of Barretry
Literary usage of Barretry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Crime in England: Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the by Luke Owen Pike (1876)
"Maintenance was not very unlike barretry in one respect, ... Champerty was still
more like barretry, for it implied an agreement on the part of the person ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"But it will not be barretry, if a man prosecutes an infinite number of his own suits
... So it is not barretry, if a man solicit suits without cause, ..."
3. Hand-book of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark (1894)
"Common barretry is the offense of frequently exciting and stirring up suits and
quarrels either at law or otherwise.1 133. Maintenance is the officious ..."
4. The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt.: In Thirteen Parts by John Henry Thomas, John Farquhar Fraser, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Edward Coke (1826)
"THE CASE OF barretry. ... are proved by the indictment of one for barretry, and
by our books : for first it is said in the indictment, quod est communis ..."
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