 To champion a cause which is known to be unlawful, false, and an abuse, is champerty and maintenance.Maintenance is not only monies (funding), but in the loss to others from the venture.In Hong Kong, champerty and maintenance were long thought to be obsolete both as a crime and a tort, but these two principles have been revived in recent years in response to the prevalence of recovery agents which present problems quite different from the mischief which historically these rules intended to combat.