litigation with a view to obtain an unconscionable gain are called champertous agreements. Such agreements are illegal in English Law. The learned Counsel ... Their Lordships of the Privy Council while recognising that champertous agreements are void in England as they are contrary to public policy, however held, that
sale transactions arc not permissible under the Mohammadan Law and are champertous and void under Section 23 of the Contract Act. (4) The sale transactions ... whether the sale transactions are
opposed to the Mohammadan Law or are
champertous and void under Section 23 of the
Contract Act. Under the Mohammadan
directed to be refunded. The law is well settled in India that Champertous agreements are not as such opposed to public policy. They will ... present case, we are not concerned with a plain and simple champertous agreement. The object of the agreement was to influence Ministers and to incur
seen whether the oral contract set up by the plaintiff was champertous and is opposed to public policy as contended. Even the lease-cum-sale
binding nature of the agreement on the ground of its being champertous and opposed to public policy- Though in the memorandum of revision, a ground
