Crossword-Solution: BARRATRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BARRATRY (5)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1959–2010).