Legal Term: DE QUOTA LITIS

Definition: The name of a part or contract, in the civil law, by which one who has a claim difficult to recover, agrees with another to give a partfor the purpose of obtaining his services to recover the rest. 1 Duv. n. 201. 2. Whenever such an agreement amounts to champerty, it is void by law. 5 Monr. 416, 5 John. Ch. 44. 3. Attorneys cannot lawfully make a bargain with their clients to receive for their compensation, a part of the thing sued for, in New York, 2 Caines, 147, Ohio, 1 Ham. 132, Alabama, 755, and some other states - but in some of the states such contracts are not unlawful.

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