There is also a perfect system of political representation, and while justice is open to one and all, litigation is sedulously discouraged.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
What between his own short experiences of Ireland, and the exposure that any litigation is sure to bring with it, he's not likely to be hard to deal with, particularly when we are in possession, as I suppose we may be, through your intimacy with the Captain, of all the secret history of these transactions.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
A villainous joke, set down just to bring about litigation, and create trouble and confusion between the two young men, himself and Jack Newcombe.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice