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.

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. See Vexatious Actions Act. In Ecclesiastical Law. A church is said to be litigious, when two rival presentations are offered to the bishop upon the same avoidance of the living. 3 Steph. Com. 417.

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 the bishop upon the same avoidance. Jenk. Cent. 11.
—Litigious right.. In the civil law. A right which cannot be exercised without undergoing a lawsuit. Civll Code La. arts. 918, 3556.

Over-ready to engage in litigation.

In English ecclesiastical law. The subject of contending claims.

In the civil law. Litigious riglit: a right which cannot be exercised without undergoing a law-suit

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.

1. In a use peculiar to jurisprudence, litigious means subject to a lawsuit; open to judicial controversy; that which may be claimed and determined in the courts. Thus, in French law, litigious rights are rights which may be brought forward and contested in a suit, either pending or apprehended. 2. In a vernacular use, litigious is a word of opprobrium applied to persons who are too ready to sue; who are overfond of litigation; will prosecute groundless claims, or unjustly defend wellfounded ones. 3. In ecclesiastical law, a church is said to be litigious when two rival presentations are offered to the bishop upon tion of suit; the interposing a contesting statement; coming to an issue. The phrase is used in a similar sense in both the canon and the civil law. In the ecclesiastical courts, the general answer of the defendant denying the charges against him formed the contestatio litis; in admiralty practice, also, it is the joining the general issue. Litis dominium. A civil-law expression for ownership, control, or direction of a suit. By a fiction, the employment of an attorney or proctor in a suit was authorized, and he was supposed to become, by the appointment from his client, the dominus litis. LITISPENDENCIA; LITISPEN- DENCE; LITISPENDENCY. Expressions equivalent, in substance, to the more common lis pendens, q. v.