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  1. The act or process of litigating or carrying on a suit in a court of law or equity; a judicial contest. It was a curious coincidence that the great breach between England and Rome should be the result of a litigation in a matrimonial suit. Stubbs, Const. Hist., 403. Nothing quells a spirit of litigation like despair of success. Paley, Moral Philos., vi. 8.
  2. Any dispute or discussion dependent upon evidence for decision. [Rare.] Whether the “muscular sense” directly yields us knowledge of space is still a matter of litigation among psychologists. W. James, Mind, XII. 1.

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  • And by reducing malpractice litigation -- malpractice litigation is not an African problem, it's an American problem. —  Robert Fischell on medical inventing
  • Factors that may cause or contribute to such differences include fewer sales than expected, changes in industry conditions, litigation, and other risk factors identified in the Company's Form 10KSB filed with the SEC. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Doctors blame lawyers and women for the fact that over 70 percent of American obstetricians have been sued one or more times, but litigation is the only way a woman and her family can protect themselves against malpractice. —  My Strange Mind
  • Doctors 'fear of litigation is another non-medical motivation for using technology. —  My Strange Mind
  • And then finally, the comment on acquisition, is that something that realistically we should be thinking about over the next year or so as the litigation is in process?
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  1. from Late Latin litigation(n-), a dispute, from Latin litigatus, past participle of litigare (later Italian litigare = Portuguese Spanish litigar), quarrel, carry on a suit: see litigate.
 

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