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/ˈbæɹətɚ/ · noun
One who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger..
But by Hawk. P. C. bk. 1, c. 21, if such suits are merely groundless, and brought only with a design to oppress the defendants, such a man may as properly be called a barrator as if he had stirred up others to bring them.
I care not though men call me impudent, / Smooth-tongu'd, audacious, petulant, abhominable, / Forger of vvords and lie, contentious Barretour, / Old, vvinding, bragging, teſty, crafty fox.
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Barrator means One who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger..
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But by Hawk. P. C. bk. 1, c. 21, if such suits are merely groundless, and brought only with a design to oppress the defendants, such a man may as properly be called a barrator as if he had stirred up others to bring them.
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