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criminal maintenance is a noun meaning "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". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
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Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for criminal maintenance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.