Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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LITIG'IOUS, adjective [Latin litigiosus.]
1. Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; quarrelsome; contentious; applied to persons. a litigious man is a bad neighbor and a bad citizen.
2. Disputable; controvertible; subject to contention; as litigious right.
No fences, parted fields, nor marks nor bounds, distinguish'd acres of litigious grounds.
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