Synonyms: criminal maintenance, maintenance
Definition: 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
Usage: unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit
Similar words: misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, actus reus
Definition: activity that transgresses moral or civil law
Usage: he denied any wrongdoing