Complex land litigation lead to the property law that today dominates Britain and much of the West.
At this point, as a mess that Mr. Madoff himself is said to have estimated at $50 billion lands in litigation, the main characters aren't talking.
It seems no accident that America, "the land of rights," is also the land of litigation.
He has been an expert witness in Indian land claims litigation.
In the land of litigation, an expensive lawsuit could easily arise from a simple motor accident.
If you come from Minnesota, are a Manhattan lawyer specializing in environmental and land-use litigation and have also been singing bluegrass music since childhood, your choice of leisure activity may belie your big city veneer.
But America is the land of litigation, and by the nineties the Adventure Playground, which lies on the western edge of Central Park, in the high Sixties, had been deemed altogether too adventurous; tunnels were blocked off after parents complained of not being able to see their children at all times.
California has experienced less possessory land claim litigation than other states.
According to a 1910 Q&A in the New York Times, the lawyers fees were "long since supposed to have eclipsed the value of the land in litigation".
This inalienability principle whether embodied by the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783, the Nonintercourse Acts of 1790, 1793, 1796, 1799, 1802, or 1833, or the federal common law remains the crux of the modern Indian land claim litigation.
