Lawsuit
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Biography
A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties against one or more parties in a civil court of law. The archaic term "suit in law" is found in only a small number of laws still in effect today.
"Val més mala avinença que bona sentencia. (Catalan)"
"Kratka sprava je bolši kakor dolga pravda. (Croatian)"
"Krátké porovnání lepŝí, než dlouhé sporování. (Czech)"
"A l'è mej un cativ accordi ch'una bona sentessa. (Piedmontese)"
"Khudoi mir luchshe dobroy ssory. (Russian)"
"Krátka správa lepšia ako dlhá pravda. (Slovak)"
"A piece of paper blown by the wind among lawyers must in the end be drawn out again by two oxen."
"Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."
"Sometimes nonsensical lawsuits are generated by lawyers. In this country (the United States everybody sues everybody."
"Englishmen may have been law-abiding, but they have not been unlitigious."
"Though every attempt to shorten litigation is entitled to the favour of the Court,1 yet before we stop a party in a regular course of proceeding, we ought to be certain that we shall not deprive him of that justice which the law authorizes him to seek."
"The law is too tenacious of private peace, to suffer litigations to be negotiable."
"Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive."
"Expedit reipublicie ut sit finis litium: It is for the public good that there be an end of litigation."
"Debet estefinit litium: There ought to be an end of law suits."