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Definition of Litigious

Litigious
Litigious Li*ti"gious, a. [L. litigiosus, fr. litigium dispute, quarrel, fr. litigare: cf. F. litigieux. See Litigation.] 1. Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation. `` A pettifogging attorney or a litigious client.' --Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, who guarrels move. --Donne. 2. Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious. --Shak. No fences, parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds, Distinguished acres of litigious grounds. --Dryden. 3. Of or pertaining to legal disputes. Nor brothers cite to the litigious bar. --Young.

Meaning of Litigious from wikipedia

- A lawsuit (or suit in law) is a proceeding by a party or parties against another in the civil court of law. Sometimes, the term "lawsuit" is in reference...
- grievances. In psychiatry, the terms querulous paranoia (Kraepelin, 1904) and litigious paranoia have been used to describe a paranoid condition which manifested...
- framed by the Court was whether the ‘practice of law’ included litigious and non-litigious work. The question therefore expanded beyond the scope of permissibility...
- United Kingdom, Canada, France and Germany). It has been one of the most litigious religious movements in history, filing countless lawsuits against governments...
- back then, but didn't want to mention it because we've become a very litigious people." Secondary character casting director, Samuel Forsyth, started...
- ranks of society, full of private feuds, intimidation, land-hunger, and litigiousness, and consideration of Richard's life and career against this background...
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- belonged, when they were distinct kingdoms. The name either signifies litigious or dis****ble ground., or it comes from the Old English word 'battable'...
- for being famous, but also for being sporadically rich and chronically litigious, was found dead on Thursday in her suite at the Seminole Hard Rock Café...
- organizations. This has helped to maintain Scientology's re****tion for litigiousness (see Scientology and the legal system). Founded in 1989, the ****ociation...
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