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Definition of Litigate
1. Verb. Engage in legal proceedings.
Related verbs: Action, Process, Sue
Derivative terms: Litigant, Litigation, Litigator
2. Verb. Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against. "They litigate to move "; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
Generic synonyms: Challenge
Specialized synonyms: Expedite
Derivative terms: Action, Actionable, Litigation, Process, Suer, Suit
Definition of Litigate
1. v. t. To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.
2. v. i. To carry on a suit by judicial process.
Definition of Litigate
1. Verb. (intransitive construed with '''on''') To go to law. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Litigate
1. to subject to legal proceedings [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Litigate
Literary usage of Litigate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1913)
"... when his claim is only partially allowed, the claimant must accept the part
so allowed in satisfaction of his whole claim or litigate it as an entirety, ..."
2. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Thomas Emerson Headlam, Leonard Field, John Biddle, Edward Clennell Dunn (1871)
"Receiver of property in Italy, with leave to appoint agent there, to litigate
rights. Let BM, of, &c., be appointed to collect and get in the outstanding ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law and Procedure of Receivers: With Forms; Being a by Henry Gabriel Tardy, John Wilson Smith (1920)
"... he can not litigate the same question in a state court.6 Whether the receivership
court will enjoin proceedings in another court must be determined by ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Replevin: As Administered in the Courts of the by Henry Ward Wells, Ebenezer Tracy Wells (1907)
"81 Defendant holding color of title 82 Action cannot be used to litigate title
to land .... 83 Chattels severed through mistake . ..."
5. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Henry Wilmot Seton, Cecil Clare Marston Dale, W. Clowes, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1891)
"Underwood v. Frost, V.-CS, in Chambers, 14 Feb. 1857, B. 543. 3. Receiver of
Property in Italy, with Agent there, and to litigate Rights. ..."
6. Holders of Railroad Bonds and Notes: Their Rights and Remedies, Treating by Louis Heft (1916)
"... a large body of persons have common rights and it is impracticable that all
join and prosecute a lawsuit, one or more may litigate in behalf of all. ..."
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