Litigation is a legal term to designate when there is divergence between the parties to the action, when any demand is placed in court. Once the lawsuit has been filed, the plaintiff files the request and the defendant must respond. It is at this point that litigation begins.
Litigation occurs when there is a Conflict of interests, and this pendency can be resolved with a lawsuit or also by consensual. The latter are cases where the plaintiff and the defendant reach an agreement on the terms that have entered into the dispute.
For example, the litigious divorce it is a process of marital separation in which there are pending issues to be resolved, such as the determination of the pension, custody of the children, division of assets, and so on. Marital litigation, also known as litigious legal separation occurs when there is no consensus between the spouses.
O labor litigation it is an open proceeding under the Labor Law, usually with the employee as the plaintiff and the employer as the defendant.
In English, the word litigation can be translated to litigation or yet dispute.
Enter the words that can serve as synonym for litigation, they are: demand, plea, dispute, dispute, question, debate, controversy and pending.
Litigation and Litigation
Legally, a synonym for litigation is the word lead, although some legal scholars consider that there are differences between the two concepts. The dispute would be the conflict of interests more broadly, whenever there is resistance in the claim of the plaintiff. While the litigation would only occur when the defendant's contestation. But in general, it is understood that the two situations are the same, and that therefore the word lead is synonymous with litigation.
At its origin, the two words mean the same. The difference became the frequency of use and associations, with litigation being much more common to talk about the activity of the action or process, and dealing with the dispute as a whole.
Litigation and Litigation come from Latin list, which means "debate or judicial process", which also gave rise to the verb deal.
See also the meaning of process.