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Example sentences for "litigation"

Lexicographically close words:
litical; litigant; litigants; litigate; litigated; litigations; litigious; litil; litill; litle
  1. Our courts are free from the vexatious litigation that fosters criticism and they are trusted as never before in history.

  2. A second phase of this whole subject which has been noted in the development of the great industrialism of the day has been the inevitable animosity between capital and labor through the ceaseless litigation growing out of these cases.

  3. I would have discouraged the litigation which the presence of lawyers and a bench suggests, and which causes such heartburn between Europeans and Africans.

  4. His interest was to promote litigation and to fill his pockets by what is called sharp practice.

  5. And a Registration Office is much wanted at head-quarters; otherwise we may expect endless litigation and the advent of the London attorney.

  6. Widows and orphans who could not afford litigation always found in him a faithful friend.

  7. After about twenty years of litigation the suit was decided in favor of the Armisteads.

  8. The result of this litigation was that the old man was reduced to extreme poverty, and was forced to sell his paternal house.

  9. His son was in the office of Register-General of the whole country, who had in his custody all the papers, documents, and everything which could tend to settle a litigation among the parties.

  10. The one thing we can't stand for is to be tied up in litigation before we have contrived to dig a few of the sinews of war out of this hole.

  11. There will be litigation a mile deep and two miles high, but we'll get delay--which is all we are playing for, right now.

  12. For several reasons; for instance, ingenuity on each side prolongs the litigation and makes it intricate, and therefore highly expensive, and so multiplies the extent of the banquet.

  13. You appreciate that the litigation will be somewhat expensive?

  14. The litigation began in Boston, but was soon transferred to New London, where, in July, 1724, Lechmere petitioned for an account.

  15. Therefore he encouraged the judges, in the collusive litigation known to us as Taltarum's Case, decided in 1472, to set aside the Statute De Donis, by the fiction of the Common Recovery.

  16. Obviously, ecclesiastical supervision over the ordinary course of litigation was amply provided for.

  17. As I told you, we don't want litigation just now," said Garwood.

  18. I have litigation pending against Ackerman and Garwood," the lawyer informed him.

  19. You have made me a defendant in litigation of yours," he said bluntly.

  20. You are promoting this litigation to form a groundwork for more.

  21. There is no litigation against us now in which you are interested.

  22. After nine years of litigation in the Chattanooga case, back it went to the Commission to be re-tried after consideration of other commercial factors.

  23. This litigation illustrates the difficulty of defining rebates as an expression of personal favoritism.

  24. It was fortunate indeed that the prohibition was not to take effect for two years, in view of the litigation necessary for its precise interpretation.

  25. But it required six years of litigation to bring about the desired result.

  26. An excellent account of the debates and early litigation is in the Journal of Political Economy, vol.

  27. Thus, in all probability, this famous and protracted litigation was brought to a close.

  28. In order fully to appreciate the significance of this decision it will be necessary to review cursorily the tedious litigation which led up to this result,--the entire emasculation of the Fourth section.

  29. For twenty years, in face of the litigation above outlined, no order of the Commission respecting local discrimination was enforced.

  30. Litigation is expensive--it takes time and it takes money--and I'm willing to do what is right.

  31. I deem this the most correct and just account of this important litigation that has ever been given to the public.

  32. The litigation lasted a number of years and a final result was not obtained until the decision of the supreme court of the United States at the April term, 1882.

  33. Marcus Aurelius, the wise judge, saw that most litigation is foolish and absurd--both parties are at fault, and both right.

  34. No," said Kant; "there is the litigation over the estate.

  35. In the previous January my father had had a very troublesome piece of litigation to conduct for his firm at Manchester.

  36. His Lordship, moreover, desired Mr. Parkinson to hold him responsible for any little demand which might be due from the poor doctor, in respect of the litigation in which he had been involved; and thus Dr.

  37. Why should he have this advantage, one that is not given so far as I know in any other law fixing the forum of litigation between individuals?

  38. In this state of the case it would seem that if the United States consents to open the litigation and to wipe out all judicial findings and decrees a less exacting measure of damages than that proposed in the bill should be agreed on.

  39. The lawyer then went on to tell an anecdote illustrating the fact that the Judge though a member of the legal profession did not believe in recourse to litigation when it could be avoided.

  40. Labor leaders, doubtless, also believed that the long litigation which the Government had conducted against the Steel Corporation had turned public sentiment against the big company.

  41. To come within this description, a question must assume a legal form for forensic litigation and judicial decision.

  42. And will I not be justified, therefore, in affirming, that the law was unnecessary, and that Congress acted under a mistaken impression, when they multiplied courts and judges at a time when litigation was actually decreasing?

  43. This source of litigation is, I trust, for ever dried up.

  44. He was, therefore, only moderately wealthy, his royalties from his really valuable invention bringing him hardly enough to pay his expenses of litigation with rogues guilty of infringement.

  45. Death is not the end; there remains the litigation over the estate.

  46. The possibilities of litigation over a will are almost infinite, and if such a rule should obtain this important channel of investigation would be closed.

  47. These include not only records of wills in the Surrogate's office, but entries and transfers of real estate which are likely to come up in the course of litigation at any time, thereby affecting the rights of many citizens.

  48. This strange arrangement proved a fruitful source of litigation after the Conquest.

  49. The law which required a decision within five days would seem little suited to the complex and embarrassing litigation of a modern tribunal.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "litigation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.