Litigation
10 definitions retrieved  Litigation \Lit`i*ga"tion\, n. [L. litigatio, fr. litigare to dispute, litigate; lis, litis, dispute, lawsuit (OL. stlis) + agere to carry on. See Agent.] The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest. [1913 Webster]  litigation n 1: a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights [syn: litigation, judicial proceeding]  LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.  litigation [litigeiʃən] Prozess; Rechtsstreit; Streitsache  litigation bíróságieljárás per pereskedés  LITIGATION. A contest authorized by law, in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right. 2. In order to prevent injustice, courts of equity will restrain a party from further litigation, by a writ of injunction; for example, after two verdicts on trials at bar, in favor of the plaintiff, a perpetual injunction was decreed. Str. 404. And not only between two individuals will a court of equity grant this relief, as in the above case of several ejectments, but also, when one general legal right, as a right of fishery, is claimed against several, distinct persons, in which case there would be no end of bringing actions, since each action would only bind the particular right in question, between the plaintiff and defendant in such action, without deciding the general right claimed. 2 Atk. 484; 2 Ves. jr. 587. Vide Circuity of Actions.  litigation Prozess m litigation Rechtsstreit m; Streitsache f litigation Streitigkeit f  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "litigation": Kilkenny cats, action, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, bicker, bickering, case, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, cause, cause in court, combat, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, defense, disputation, dispute, enmity, fighting, flyting, hassle, hostility, hubbub, judicial process, lawsuit, legal action, legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, logomachy, paper war, passage of arms, polemic, polemics, proceedings, prosecution, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rhubarb, scrapping, set-to, squabbling, strife, struggle, suit, suit at law, verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangling Litigation related |
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