Litigation
[lɪtɪ'geɪʃ(ə)n] or ['lɪtə'geʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights.
Checker: Tom--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.
Typist: Melville
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Lawsuit, suit at law, judicial contest.
Editor: Maggie
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Typed by Audrey
Examples
- Extensive litigation with new-comers followed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was more litigation over this than over any other of Edison’s inventions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mr. Edison's storage battery and the poured cement house have not yet reached the stage of great commercial enterprises, and therefore have not yet risen to the dignity of patent litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This statement cannot be successfully controverted, for it has been abundantly verified after many years of costly litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- All agreed that it must be the litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After fourteen years of litigation the patent was finally awarded to Berliner. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Hence, it is not surprising that, on the whole, the Edison lamp litigation was not less remarkable for quantity than quality. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was a big fight on between Gould's company and the Western Union, and this caused more litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But Mr. Edison could not create these great and diverse industries and at the same time give requisite attention to litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The litigation on the Edison lamp patents was one of the most determined and stubbornly fought contests in the history of modern jurisprudence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thus, in 1893, the litigation was reopened, and a protracted series of stubbornly contested conflicts was fought in the courts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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