As Amended
SEC. 73-3-57. Unlawful to encourage litigation [Repealed effective December 31, 2006].
It shall be unlawful for an attorney at law, either before or after action brought, to promise, or give or offer to promise or give, a valuable consideration to any person as an inducement to placing, or in consideration of having placed in his hands, or in the hands of any partnership of which he is a member, a demand of any kind, for the purpose of bringing suit or making claim against another, or to employ a person to search for and procure clients to be brought to such attorney.
SOURCES: Codes, 1906, Sec. 231; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 208; 1930, Sec. 3711; 1942, Sec. 8683; reenacted without change, Laws, 1983, ch. 457, Sec. 14; reenacted, 1991, ch. 560, Sec. 14, eff from and after July 1, 1991. Reenacted by Laws 1999, Ch. 372, Sec. 15, HB542; Reenacted without change, Laws, 2003, ch. 524, § 14, HB 782, eff from and after July 1, 2003.
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