criminal maintenance

Noun
  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 (synset 100767144)
    "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"
    referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
    is a type of: actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct - activity that transgresses moral or civil law
    same as: maintenance

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