The litigious man (he tells us) is bent upon nothing but victory in debate, per fas et nefas: the Sophist aims at passing himself off falsely for a wise or clever man, and making money thereby.
Its worst enemies are those foolish andlitigious advocates who antagonize and estrange every development of human Good Will that does not pay tribute to their vanity in open acquiescence.
Printing presses have spread a noisy assertiveness, as well as a very critical and litigious spirit, which tends to resent and oppose authority.
A litigious spirit became so universal that all authority was openly derided, crimes of every description being so common as to force most respectable men to withdraw from public affairs and leave a bare rump of desperadoes in power.
Seven of our men were charged with these awful crimes, and the herdsmen, who are as litigious as the Aden Somalis, came in a white heat to prefer their complaints.
The secret, unseen, but irrefragable bond of habitual intercourse holds them together, even when their perverse and litigious nature sets them to equivocate, scuffle, and fight about the terms of their written obligations.
Were they inflamed with a violent, litigious spirit of controversy?
He adhered very tenaciously to his delusional system and believed himself fully justified in all his litigious pursuits.
The litigious form of this disorder is particularly characterized by a persistent and unyielding tendency toward litigious pursuits.
According to Tanzi[3] the theme underlying the delusional system of litigious paranoiacs is avarice, and the whole may be looked upon as the slow and permanent triumph of a preconception.
Indeed, the study of litigious paranoia, more than anything else, illustrates how much method there may really be in madness.
No foreign clime they ransack for their robes, No brother cite to the litigious bar.
That title only fits a saint, Whose free thoughts, far above restraint And weighty cares, can gladly part With house and lands, and leave the smart, Litigious troubles and loud strife Of this world for a better life.
You shall be called," said the Impeacher, "master Litigious Pettifogger, alias the Courts Comprised.
In the law of England the provisions as to litigious costs, though now simpler than of old, are still elaborate and complicated, and the costs themselves are on a higher scale than is known in most other countries.
Costs as between solicitor and client are taxed in the same office as litigious costs, and objections to the decisions of the taxing officer, if properly made, can be taken for review to a judge of the High Court and to the Court of Appeal.
In the taxation of litigious costs two methods are still adopted, known as "between party and party" and "between solicitor and client.
And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone.
Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out stillLitigious men, who guarrels move.
The men of Norfolk were noted for theirlitigious propensities (cf.
The Mussulmans of Backergunje are among the worst of their creed, steeped in ignorance and prejudice, easily excited to violence and murder, very litigious and grossly immoral.
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