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  • LITIGATION
    A judicial controversy. A contest in a court of justice, for the purpose of enforcing a right.
  • LITIGIOSITY
    In Scotch law. The pendency of a suit; it Is a tacit legal prohibition of alienation, to the disappointment of an action, or of diligence, the direct object of which is to obtain possession, or to acquire the property of a particular subject The effect of it is analogous to More...
  • LITIGIOSO
    Span. Litigious; the subject of litigation; a term applied to property which is the subject of dispute in a pending suit. White v. Gay, 1 Tex. 388.
  • 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 fond of litigation; prone to engage In suits. -Litigious church. In ecclesiastical law, a church is said to be litigious where two presentations are offered to More...
  • LITIS AESTIMATIO
    Lat The measure of damages.
  • LITIS CONTESTATIO
    Lat. In the oivil and canon law. Contestation of suit; the process of contesting a suit by the opposing statements of the respective parties; the process of coming to an issue; the attainment of an issue; the issue itself. In the practice of the ecclesiastical courts. The general answer made More...
  • LITIS DENUNCIATIO
    Lat In the civil law. The process by which a purchaser of property, who Is sued for its possession or recovery by a third person, falls back upon his vendor's covenant of warranty, by giving tbe latter notice of the action and demanding his aid in defending It See Mackeld. More...
  • LITIS DOMINIUM
    Lat In the civil law. Ownership, control, or direction of a suit. A fiction of law by which the employment of an attorney or proctor (procurator) in a suit was authorized or justified, he being supposed to become, by the appointment of his principal (dominus) or client the dominus litis. More...
  • LITISPENDENCE
    An obsolete term for 'the time during which a lawsuit Js going on.
  • LITISPENDENCIA
    In Spanish law. Litispendency. The condition of a suit pending in a court of justice.
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