| NOUN | act | judicial proceeding, litigation | a legal proceeding in a court |
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| Meaning | A legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights. | |
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| Synonym | litigation | |
| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Narrower | custody battle | litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couple |
| vexatious litigation | litigation shown to have been instituted maliciously and without probable cause | |
| Broader | proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings | (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked |
| Spanish | litigación, litigio, pleito | |
| Catalan | litigació, litigi | |
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