Litigious

4 definitions found

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

  Litigious \Li*ti"gious\, a. [L. litigiosus, fr. litigium
     dispute, quarrel, fr. litigare: cf. F. litigieux. See
     {Litigation}.]
     1. Inclined to initiate lawsuits; given to the practice of
        contending in law; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging
        attorney or a litigious client." --Macaulay.


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              Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still
              Litigious men, who quarrels move.     --Donne.
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     2. Hence: Quarrelsome; contentious; argumentative.
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     3. Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible;
        debatable; doubtful; precarious. --Shak.
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              No fences, parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds,
              Distinguished acres of litigious grounds. --Dryden.
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     4. Of or pertaining to legal disputes.
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              Nor brothers cite to the litigious bar. --Young.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  litigious
       adj 1: of or relating to litigation
       2: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree,
          even to engage in law suits; "a style described as
          abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a
          litigious and acrimonious spirit" [syn: {contentious}, {disputatious},
           {disputative}]

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

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "litigious":
     actionable, aggressive, argumental, argumentative, bellicose,
     belligerent, bickering, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, causidical,
     combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputatious,
     divisive, eristic, factional, factious, ill-humored, irascible,
     irritable, litigable, litigant, litigatory, logomachic, partisan,
     pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic, polemical, pro and con,
     pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, shrewish, wrangling
  
  

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

  LITIGIOUS. That which is the subject of a suit or action; that which is 
  contested in a court of justice. In another sense, litigious signifies a 
  disposition to sue; a fondness for litigation.