litigious

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litigious - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Litigious \Li*ti"gious\, a. [L. litigiosus, fr. litigium
     dispute, quarrel, fr. litigare: cf. F. litigieux. See
     Litigation.]
     1. Inclined to initiate lawsuits; given to the practice of
        contending in law; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging
        attorney or a litigious client." --Macaulay.
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              Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still
              Litigious men, who quarrels move.     --Donne.
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     2. Hence: Quarrelsome; contentious; argumentative.
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     3. Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible;
        debatable; doubtful; precarious. --Shak.
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              No fences, parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds,
              Distinguished acres of litigious grounds. --Dryden.
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     4. Of or pertaining to legal disputes.
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              Nor brothers cite to the litigious bar. --Young.
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litigious - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  litigious
      adj 1: of or relating to litigation
      2: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree,
         even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive
         and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and
         acrimonious spirit" [syn: contentious, combative,
         disputatious, disputative, litigious]

litigious - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  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. 
  
  

litigious - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "litigious":
     actionable, aggressive, argumental, argumentative, bellicose,
     belligerent, bickering, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, causidical,
     combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputatious,
     divisive, eristic, factional, factious, ill-humored, irascible,
     irritable, litigable, litigant, litigatory, logomachic, partisan,
     pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic, polemical, pro and con,
     pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, shrewish, wrangling