criminal maintenance   (TTS Sound)

The criminal_maintenance has 1 Senses.

• criminal maintenance, maintenance
• 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; "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"
• 司法妨害する、不必要な訴訟を促進する、コミュニティの平和を乱すために、それ（一当事者へ資金を支援する、またそうでない場合行為を続ける）に全く関心がない人による法的措置に対する権限ないの妨害