litigation has definitions from the field of law
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[ noun ] (law) a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights

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(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

Admiralty_law , the law_merchant , and the host of problems which arise in private litigation because of some contact with a foreign country were all severed from the older Law_of_Nations and made dependent_on the several national laws .

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