adjective
definition
Of or relating to litigation.
definition
Inclined to engage in lawsuits.
definition
Argumentative or combative.
Examples of litigious in a Sentence
In addition to litigious business the courts also deal with non-litigious matters, such as the registration of titles to land, guardianship and the drawing up and custody of testamentary dispositions, all which are almost entirely within the province of the Amtsgerichie.
They are as litigious as a lawsuit - without any summing up; the end comes in a moment with a text of Scripture or an utterance by one of the great Fathers.
Justice.By the Judicature ActGerichtsverfassungsgesetz of 1879, the so-called regular litigious jurisdiction of the courts of law was rendered uniform throughout the empire, and the courts are now everywhere alike in character and composition; and with the exception of the Reichsgericht (supreme court of the empire), immediately subject to the government of the state in which they exercise jurisdiction, and not to the imperial government.
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.
Vasari eulogizes Mantegna for his courteous, distinguished and praiseworthy deportment, although there are indications of his having been not a little litigious in disposition.
External policy had the same litigious character.
In our increasingly litigious society, many people keep their nest egg offshore.
English procedure, however, being litigious, and not, like continental European procedure, inquisitorial, in its character, the expert soon became, and still is, simply a witness to speak to matters of opinion.
The move was prompted by concerns that students were becoming more litigious.
And if they do, expect an angry, potentially litigious response from United should Rooney break down again.
Given the highly litigious nature of the US, practical considerations of hygiene influence every design decision.
Indeed, when academics become so litigious, this raises serious questions about the freedom of academic debate.
With him Liligious the French monarchy defined its ambitions, and little character by little forsook its feudal and ecclesiastical character of Philip in order to clothe itself in juridical forms. His aggres- the Fairs sive and litigious policy and his ruthless financial reizn.
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man has as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
It is true that centuries of law-abiding and litigious habitude had accumulated in the temple archives of each city vast stores of precedent in ancient deeds and the records of judicial decisions, and that intercourse had assimilated city custom.