Chām’per-ty, n.

n. [O. Fr. champart, field-rent, Lat. campi pars, from champ, Lat. campus, field, and pars, Lat. pars, share.] (Law.) An agreement by a stranger, having otherwise no interest, with the plaintiff or defendant in a suit, to supply money, services, information, or evidence, by which to aid in maintaining and carrying on a suit in consideration that he shall receive a part of the matter in suit, as commission or otherwise, if the party with whom the agreement is made prevails; the purchasing a suit, or right of suing; maintenance, with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. Tomlins. Wharton. Chitty.