Crossword-Solution: BARRATRY 8 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Barratry n. The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and
quarrels.
Barratry n. A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known
illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of
master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or
cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust
committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship,
sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.
Barratry n. The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in
pronouncing judgment.

We have 16 clues for the answer “BARRATRY”

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Crime of a judge influenced by bribery 1 answer
Fraud, in maritime law. 1 answer
OFFICE sale 1 answer
PURCHASE of office 1 answer
PURCHASE or sale of office 1 answer
Persistent incitement to litigation 1 answer
SALE of office 1 answer
fraud law nautical terms 1 answer
nautical terms fraud law 1 answer
OFFICE purchase 6 answers
improbity 30 answers
Laxity 68 answers
Offence 73 answers
Crime __ 75 answers
Graft 77 answers
dishonesty 77 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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The law severely contrabands Our taking bus'ness off men's hands; 'Tis common barratry, that bears 695 Point-blank an action 'gainst our ears And crops them till there is not leather To stick a pin in left of either; For which some do the Summer-sault, And o'er the bar, like tumblers, vault, 700 But you may swear, at any rate, Things not in nature, for the State; For in all courts of justice here A witness is not said to swear, But make oath; that is, in plain terms, 705 To forge whatever he affirms.
Hudibras Samuel Butler 2004
Perjurers, forgers, those involved in barratry or suborning perjury, and pretenders practicing as attorneys or solicitors in the courts of law or equity shall be transported for seven years to the American colonies.
Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed. S. A. Reilly 2004
Clarke, “he cannot be convicted of barratry, unless he is always at variance with some person or other, a mover of suits and quarrels, who disturbs the peace under colour of law.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias Smollett 2006
Then I was domestic with the good King Thibault; here I set myself to doing barratry, of which I render reckoning in this heat.' And Ciriatto, from whose mouth on either side came forth a tusk as from a hog, made him feel how one of them did rip.
Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" John T. Slattery 2005
Hank figures this deal either of two ways; either I run her nose into the San Diego slip again with a fat fee for him; or else it's Davy Jones for the _New Moon_ and Hank quits with the insurance money." "Know what barratry is, don't you?" demanded Kendric.
Daughter of the Sun Jackson Gregory 2006
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1959–2010).