ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] a. Made the subject of a lawsuit; contested at law. b. gen. Contested, disputed.

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a. 1745.  Swift, Acc. Crt. & Empire Japan, Wks. 1841, I. 559/1. There were two maritime towns … bordering upon Tedsu: of these he purchased a litigated title.

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1772.  Barrington, in Phil. Trans., LXII. 266. This litigated point can only receive a satisfactory decision from very accurate observations.

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a. 1797.  H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. II. (1847), II. i. 23. Malone made him great promises … of even acquiescing to the litigated clause of the King’s consent.

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1813.  T. Jefferson, Writ. (1830), IV. 210. It is a litigated question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie, is a good or an evil.

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1835.  Reeve, De Tocqueville’s Democr., I. ii. 41. Officers were charged … with the arbitration of litigated landmarks.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., III. xiv. (1872), I. 231. These litigated Duchies are now the Prussian Province Jülich-Berg-Cleve.

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