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'''Barratry ''' is an act committed by the master or mariners of a [[vessel]], for some unlawful or fraudulent purpose, contrary to their duty to the owners, whereby the latter sustain injury. It may include negligence, if so gross as to evidence fraud.<ref>U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration [http://www.marad.dot.gov/publications/glossary/glossary.html]</ref>
'''Barratry ''' is an act committed by the master or mariners of a [[vessel]], for some unlawful or fraudulent purpose, contrary to their duty to the owners, whereby the latter sustain injury. It may include negligence, if so gross as to evidence fraud.<ref>U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration [http://www.marad.dot.gov/publications/glossary/glossary.html]</ref>
Barratry can also refer to political [[corruption]]. It is often used in this way to describe the [[sin]] punished in the fifth subdivision of the eighth circle of [[Hell]] in [[Dante's Inferno]]. The sin has particular significance within this work, because [[Dante]] himself was accused of barratry in the events that led to his exile from [[Florence]].
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