Pearson Vs Chung
Trawling dictionaries, as you do in the crossword racket, you encounter some peculiar words. Wittol, for example, is a knowing cuckold. While I’m still aspiring to use champerty in a sentence this calendar year (excluding this sentence).
To refresh your legal expertise, champerty is the scurrilous sharing of proceeds earned via litigation by the one who promotes or instigates that action.
Is champerty alive and well? Ask a lawyer – you know the kind. The one to frogmarch you into a frivolous suit purely because he smells a windfall. Or watch the saga sparked by Roy L Pearson Jr in Washington DC, where DC stands for Dry Cleaner. Judge Pearson is suing his local steam press for $54 million (US) for blotching a pair of dacks. I smell the potential to blurt, “Champerty!” Or am I legally ill-advised?