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Considerable litigation occurred at various periods with reference to the parochial possessions, especially those at Severn Stoke.
For the settlement of American litigation this course was adequate; not so for the vindication of international procedure.
As society grew more complicated, the door was thus opened to every species of vexatious charge and frivolous litigation.
Occasional litigation, of course, occurs, which I have often had the pleasure of conducting to an amicable and satisfactory termination.
On the ground of alleged imperfection of location of a portion of these claims, they were "jumped," and litigation followed.
Our courts are free from the vexatious litigation that fosters criticism, and they are trusted as never before in history.
I counselled consultations of a kindly nature with the young ladies, foreseeing litigation of a complicated and painful ecclesiastical nature.
He'd be in litigation through the twenty-first century as managements fought to the last stockholder's dollar to keep their jobs.
Stipulations in the course of litigation do not need equivalents nor do they need to be acted on in order to be enforceable.
He falsified or rather forged altogether an ancient document, by which the possession of some lands was brought into litigation.
Goods, as they arrived for his firm, were stored pending litigation, and deteriorated to only a fraction of their original value.
Meantime, the litigant has been fleeced out of an amount perhaps a hundred times the value of the article under litigation.
Before entering upon this period of litigation, one of the stories of Allen, illustrating his honesty, may fitly find a place.
Any lawyer could give numberless instances where an inability to write clear and simple English has caused litigation without end.
If litigation is contemplated, the solicitor advises his client and conducts the sparring and negotiations which usually precede a lawsuit.
Fire and property trespass cases seldom can be construed as innocent, hence in most cases such offenses result in litigation.
Capable, earnest and conscientious, he has been connected with important litigation before the local courts and his clientele is representative.
Some of these courts are so overburdened with pending causes that the delays in determining litigation amount often to a denial of justice.
The best lawyers were peacemakers, and though, of necessity, professional partisans when engaged in litigation, they were generally honorable partisans.
The expenses of winding up, owing to vexatious litigation, have amounted to a sum sufficient to cover the outside liabilities of the company.
It may be that he has a direct interest in the result of the litigation, or is to receive some indirect benefit therefrom.
A determination of a constitutional arbiter ought to seal up the lips of even prejudice itself, in silence; otherwise litigation must be endless.
What is said about falsehood in litigation reflects no discredit on our jurisprudence, but surely it describes much of what occurs in practice.
Such a voluminous rule, they truly said, could be no rule at all, and could be fruitful of nothing but everlasting litigation.
Slander suits were commenced on one side and criminal proceedings were instituted on the other; and litigation followed litigation pro and con.
They cannot make wills, and the law of inheritance is so vague that when a rich man dies litigation almost always ensues.
The law which required a decision within five days would seem little suited to the complex and embarrassing litigation of a modern tribunal.
"Oh, I only asked, because there is generally so much food for litigation if a man dies intestate, and is worth any money."
Litigation proceeded for several years both in the ecclesiastical courts and in chancery, but without any definite decision being arrived at.
Don Juan Manuel passed considerable time in that retreat, until Death with his scythe cut the Gordian knot of that litigation.
Much use has been made of it for overhearing, or for recording, conversations for the purpose of obtaining evidence for use in litigation.
He left a modest estate, which was the subject of considerable litigation by his descendants, due to the mismanagement of the guardian.
Can it be that the drivers on this line are privately instructed to despatch all passengers maimed by accident, to prevent tedious litigation?
I have, therefore, instructed our privateers to bring in no more neutral ships, as such prizes occasion much litigation, and create ill blood.
The Razor itself did not survive this litigation, for before the new year of 1869 had dawned it was already discontinued.
Can it be that the drivers on this line are privately instructed to dispatch all passengers maimed by accident, to prevent tedious litigation?
And in the management of their estates much litigation obstinately pursued caused internal dissension, was costly, and gained them only bitter enemies.
Thereby they involved themselves in continual and expensive litigation with the owners of riparian rights and the jealous merchants of neighboring towns.
Our own columns have, perhaps, never borne so humiliating a record of contentions, and ecclesiastical litigation as during the last few months.
In his letters to the different magistrates during the litigation over his nephew, he is often satirical and sarcastic in spite of himself.
The surviving inhabitants could not tell where their houses had stood, and property was so mingled that litigation followed the earthquake.
In the great consolidation entailed by the foreign litigation, his confidence was abused, and he met with heavy and irreparable loss.
In some cases, mental alienation is manifested in a mania for litigation, which urges the sufferer to offend statesmen, state lawyers, and judges.
The Indigo disturbances in the district had given rise to a great deal of violence, litigation, and fraud; forgery and perjury were rampant.
Thievery was so little known, that doors went unlocked at all times; there was no usury, and a general absence of litigation.
It was all right at first, of course; while we couldn't tell whether we had a mine or only a costly muddle of litigation.
Even the winding creek which ran down through the strip of meadow was a fruitful cause of dissension and litigation between the families.
This council acts also as a tribunal, and takes cognizance of all the petty cases of litigation that may arise among the townsfolk.
I have been plunged in litigation fostered by men who had not the courage to put themselves forward (loud cheers below the gangway).
I criticized with some severity the reliability of the affidavits in which mistakes occurred according to the convenience and exigencies of this litigation.
Whatever destroys happiness, creates doubt and suspicion among the people, ending in litigation, divorces, and murders, fulfills the mission of slander.
George Donner lived to see his property become very valuable, but the vexatious litigation above described was not terminated until after his death.
Its docket became at once a full one, and important litigation was transacted there with general acceptance until the close of the war.
It will not be a waste of time to advert to the existing state of the facts connected with the subject of this litigation.
It would mean more endless trouble and litigation, and your charges against these men might come back like a boomerang on our own heads.
Bolton put in a claim that he had bought it from a prior locator, and pretty soon they were all tangled up in litigation.
I can not take a fortune from your hands without litigation or any difficulty whatever, and leave you only a paltry ten thousand dollars.
His testimony is valued in matters of litigation, sometimes patent infringements, sometimes municipal warfare between corporations, but always of a highly specialized nature.
And now come we to the final "action" in this concatenation of litigation, one that gave consternation to the poor "parish clerk," be it understood.
For, lest there should be ruinous litigation after he had gone, my grandfather had already given a portion of the property to your mother.
In time of peace there are no appointed magistrates, but the chiefs in the cantons declare justice and quell litigation as well as they can.
I would have discouraged the litigation which the presence of lawyers and a bench suggests, and which causes such heartburn between Europeans and Africans.
Litigation would become the order of the day, and a rapacious class would spring into existence where lawyers and barristers are now totally unknown.
Of the early history of the Curtain we know little, mainly because it was not, like certain other playhouses, the subject of extensive litigation.
By the operation of this plan, the poor laws, those instruments of civil torture, will be superseded, and the wasteful expense of litigation prevented.
It is even unwise to illustrate alternative species in a patent for, in case, of litigation, some one of the alternative species might prove to be old.
It is to the trade unions and their co-operative litigation that the thanks of the workmen are due for preserving their rights under the Act.
When a householder has dwelt all his time free from claims and charges, his wife and children shall dwell there unmolested by litigation.
The best lawyers were peacemakers; but, when engaged in litigation, and it became necessary, they were professional partisans, though they were generally honorable partisans.
Egypt, in its financial stress and snarl of litigation, was a wonderful operating field for a man with loose money and a tight nature.
The question gave rise, some years later, to a furious litigation between the parties, with which it is not necessary at present to embarrass the reader.
That, thanks to work being given to Solicitors in preference to Barristers, litigation is more expensive in that branch of the science than in any other.
It is a hopeless task to be always striving against the stream: it is a thankless one to be in a state of perpetual litigation with the community.
Enthusiastic always at the crisis of a litigation, Worth Higgins, for some reason or other, had become cool, surly, sharp to Elinor, as time went on.
His time was taken up in liquidating the tangled affairs of Perkins and Brown, and with the extensive litigation involved in the settlement of them.
They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.
His death was followed by his son's death; and after sixty years of fierce animosities and litigation, the whole contention was allowed to lapse.
After a long course of anxious litigation, complicated by somewhat tortuous proceedings on the part of my opponents, the cause was settled in the following way.
This patent was the subject of long litigation between rival inventors, to the great benefit of the lawyers, and loss of the industrious and ingenious.
When, therefore, adjacent or underlying excavations cause earth movements in a neighbor's property, litigation is likely to ensue, and the geologist is likely to be called in.
The insolvent crowned entrails, which, in this way, could not pay money, involved him now in a financial litigation with the heir to the crown.
Yet so carelessly are they used by lawyers and legislators, that half the money spent in litigation goes to determine the meanings of words and phrases.
He ascribes what he calls the growing lack of confidence in the justice and equity of litigation in the courts to the fundamental error in their procedure.
As you are probably aware, this property, after many years of disuse and much litigation, has finally been cleared as to title and put upon the market.
The diminution of competition would so simplify the law that no question would be likely to arise that the parties to the litigation could not themselves explain.
He hated litigation and resolved to wait another season before he would take any steps, in order to see if a recurrence of the vexatious stoppage would again take place.
It is, besides, a sort of litigation in which charge and cross charge recur incessantly, and, as in all amicable suits, each party pays his own costs.
This course he was perhaps the more inclined to, as he was himself so terribly harassed by the litigation and trouble arising out of the Parliamentary struggle.
These circumstances would have been long since laid before the public, but from various perplexities, and the very disastrous events that arose out of this ruinous litigation.
As a matter of fact, those whose work is more remunerative than a street-car conductor's or a carpenter's, make their living through business and not in small litigation.
The one thing we can't stand for is to be tied up in litigation before we have contrived to dig a few of the sinews of war out of this hole.
In short, the magistrates have landed themselves, and will land us in interminable confusion; and we foresee that not a little litigation will result from their proceedings.
The solicitor, it should be remembered, has multifarious duties in connection with litigation, whilst the barrister is only the adviser on points of law and the advocate.
In a few years this custom, more prevalent perhaps in this Province, than elsewhere, will prove a fruitful source of litigation, unless the practice should be discontinued.
Except in rare instances where there happened to be survivors among the families of the original plaintiff and defendant, this form of litigation was never prolonged or tiresome.
Apply to it a test, which may be set down as unerring, never failing soon to discover the true metal from the base counterfeit: its effect upon litigation.
Both in the formulation of laws relating to mineral resources, and in the litigation growing out of the infraction of these laws, the economic geologist plays a part.
He often saved his friends from the vexatious labyrinth of litigation by assuaging the angry elements of passion and leading them to the pure fountain of equal justice.
The costs of litigation are enormous, and the legal expenses to litigants are as great as in settlements where with the same money every advantage can be obtained.
Special exertions evidently were required unless all that had been gained was to be lost, and, at the best, litigation in the Roman court was a costly business.