Obs. Forms: (4 chaumpertor), 6 champertour, -partor, 7 parter, (-pertour), 7– champertor. [a. Anglo-F. champartour, in OF. champarteor, f. champarter vb., f. CHAMPART.] One guilty of champerty.
[1383. Act 7 Rich. II., xv. § 1. Des meyntenors des quereles & chaumpertors.]
c. 1500. Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 90. Mayntener of quarels, champertour, enbracer of questis, or other comon mysdoers.
1581. Lambarde, Eiren., IV. iv. (1588), 438. A Champartour, that is to say, one that mooueth pleas or sutes … at his owne costes, to the end to have part of the land or other thing in variance.
1668. Rolle, Abridgm., 53. Thou art a common maintainer of Suits, and a Champertor, and I will have thee thrown over the Bar next Terme.
1816. Edin. Rev., 354. Calling the plaintiff a champertor.
