But, beforehand, I could be glad, conformably to what I have always signified, to have the most explicit assurances, that every possible way should be tried to avoid litigation with my father.

It was his principle and his practice to discourage litigation.

"The great point isto prevent litigation.

Ask anybody you meet, who is the biggest woman in Cambridge, and I 'll hold you a wager they'll say Mrs. Smith; she broke down two benches in Trinity Gardens,one on the confines of St. John's, which occasioned a litigation between the Societies as to repairing it.

With the death of the claimant all hopes of prolonging the litigation came to an end.

'Well, man, what is it?' 'My lord,' Mr. Fish wick answered, 'I desire first to impress upon your lordship and Sir George Soane that this claim was set on foot in good faith on the part of my client, and on my part; and, as far as I was concerned, with no desire to promote useless litigation.

Robert to commence litigation at once.

Instead of making each man survey his own land, and allowing him to survey it when, how, and where he pleased, with the certainty of producing endless litigation and trouble, Congress provided for a corps of government surveyors, who were to go about this work systematically.

This was not true in Roman courts, which preferred to settle litigation by juristic reasoning and believed, like Napoleon, that God, when appealed to in a fight, was generally on the side of the party who had the better artillery.

He might have dismissed the litigation in a few words by stating that, whatever the abstract rights of the parties might have been, the Supreme Court had no power to constrain the President in his official functions; but he yielded to political animosity.

It is a lawyer's business, for though it will make the world better, it will not do it soon enough to lessen litigation in his time.

The positions were only too often filled by very incompetent and unworthy men, who stimulated litigation in order to make more money.