criminal maintenance
noun
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Sense 1 noun
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
unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
Types & categories
- wrongful conduct hypernym
Related & opposite
- law domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wrongful conduct |