1. (v. t.) To institute or engage in legal proceedings; to make the subject of a lawsuit\; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.

2. (v. i.) To carry on a suit by judicial process.

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