Litigation

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  litigation
       n : a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to
           determine and enforce legal rights [syn: {judicial
           proceeding}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  LITIGATION, n.  A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of
  as a sausage.