No person shall agree to buy, or to bargain or sell any pretended right or title in lands or tenements, or any interest in such pretended right or title.
Code 1858, § 1776 (deriv. Acts 1821, ch. 66, § 1); Shan., § 3171; Code 1932, § 7823; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-406.
Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 6 Tenn. Juris., Champerty and Maintenance, §§ 3, 5-7, 9, 10, 13; 12 Tenn. Juris., Executions, § 47; 25 Tenn. Juris., Witnesses, § 54.
Law Reviews.
Champerty as We Know It (R.D. Cox), 13 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 139 (1983).