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Barratry

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Barratry
1. In maritime commerce, an illegal act in which the captain or crew of a ship damages the transaction. Examples include stealing cargo or throwing it overboard. Barratry is a risk associated with the transaction; responsibility for the risk may rest with the buyer or the seller, depending on the terms of the shipping agreement. See also: Incoterm.

2. The act or practice of filing repeated, usually frivolous lawsuits.
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Any restrictions on sale would derive from state laws and rules against barratry and champetry, which are "extrinsic" to the claim itself.
The netting of costs against income receipts (including damage ... by Dodge, Joseph M. / Virginia Tax Review
23) In upholding a local rule copied verbatim from the Manual, one court suggested that concerns about solicitation were "all the more compelling in the class action framework, given the heightened susceptibilities of nonparty class members to solicitation amounting to barratry as well as the increased opportunities of the parties or counsel to 'drum up' participation in the proceeding.
Limiting coercive speech in class actions by Greenawalt, Andrei / Yale Law Journal
Freighting Good Merchandise: Damnation as Maritime Barratry in Inferno XXI-XXIII.
Bibliography of Italian studies in North America by Giordano, Paolo A. / Italica
 
 
 
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