Debate: variaunce: controuersie in words. Iudex de lite iocosa. Ouid. Cupidus litium & rixæ. Hor. Desirous of debate and strife. Creare & serere lites. Plaut. To make and sow debate. Dirimere litem. Ouid. Exorta lis. Sta. Litis contestatio, Vide COTBSTARI litem. Instrumentum litis. Quint. The instrument or meane wherby one iustifieth his matter. Forum orbum litibus. Hor. In medijs litium medallis versantur. Quint. They are euen in the middes of, &c. Hæieditariæ lites. Quint. Suites for heritage. Iniqua lis. Hor. Molesta lis. Hor. Nostra omnis lis est, Vide NOSTER. Pecuniaria lis. Quint. A controutrsie about money. Accipere litem, Vide ACCIPIO. Aestimare litem, Vide AESTIMO. Agere litem aduersus aliquem. Quint. To sue against one. Auferre litem, Vide AVFERO. Lite eadere, Festus. To leese his action: to be cast. Cicero & Plautus Litem peidere dixerunt. Coire in lites, Vide COEO. Componere lites inter aliquos. Virg. To make agreement betweene. Concure lites. Plaut. To raise strise and controuersie. Conferre lites. Hor. Cõstituere lummã totius litis in re aliqua, Vide CONSTITVO. Contestari litem, Vide CONTESTOR. Contrahere lites, Vide CONTRAHO. Dijudicata lis. Hor. Discernere litem atuis. Virg. To put away strife for boundes in fieldes or laude. Litem dare secundum tabulas alicuius. Ci. To giue sentence or to iudge in a controuersie according to. Ire in litem. Ouid. Facere litem. Quin. Litem suam facere. Ci. To defend, or to pleade in a matter so as if it touched him or were his owne. Generare litem. Quint. Litem habere cum aliquo. Cic. To haue suit in law with one. Arris litibus implicitus. Hor. Nouas incidere lites. Virg. Litem capitis in aliquem inferre. Cic. To sue one in a matter of life and death. Instruere litem, Vide INSTRVO. Intendere litem alicui. Cic. To sue processe against one. Iurare in litem, Vide IVRO. Periculo litium se liberare. Cice. To rid or dispatch himselfe from the danger of snites. Iniqua lite morari aliquem. Hor. Liti se offerre, Vide OFFERO. Litem perdere. Cic. To leese his processe. Litem lite resoluere. Hor. Magnæ secantur iudice lites. Hor. Adhuc sub iudice lis est. Horat. The matter is not yet determined. Suscipere litem. Quint. Arbitrium litis traijcere in aliquem. Ouid. Litem in rem suam vertere dicitur iudex. Liu. To turne the whole matter to his owne commoditie.

I. In gen.: si quis pugnam expectat, litis contrahat, Plaut. Capt. prol. 63: philosophi aetatem in litibus conterunt, Cic. Leg. 1, 20, 53: grammatici certant et adhuc sub judice lis est, Hor. A. P. 78: morsus litibus alternis dati, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 39: semper habet lites alternaque jurgia lectus In quo nupta jacet, Juv. 6, 268.—Transf., of inanimate things: lis est cum formā magna pudicitiae, Ov. H. 16, 288; id. F. 1, 107.—

II. In partic.

A. A charge, an accusation: accipito hanc tute ad te litem ... Fac ego ne metuam mihi, atque ut tu meam timeas vicem, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 23. —

B. A lawsuit, an action or process at law: nam mihi tris hodie litis judicandas dicito, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 10: hodie juris coctiores non sunt, qui litis creant, Quam sunt hice, qui, si nihil est litium, litis serunt, id. Poen. 3, 2, 9 sq.; Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 109: repetere ac persequi lite atque judicio aliquid, id. Verr. 2, 3, 13, 32: litem alicui intendere, id. de Or. 1, 10, 42: in inferendis litibus, id. Rab. Post. 4, 10: contestari, id. Att. 16, 15, 2: obtinere aut amittere, id. Rosc. Com. 4, 10: orare, id. Off. 3. 10, 43: sedare, id. Verr. 2, 3, 57, 132: secare, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 42: perdere, Gai. Inst. 4, 30: in litibus aestimandis, in suits for damages, Cic. Clu. 41, 116; id. Rab. Post. 4, 9: lis capitis, a prosecution involving life, a capital charge, id. Clu. 41, 116: aestimationem litium non esse judicium, an appraisal of damages, id. ib.; cf. id. Rab. Post. 5, 11: cum in eum litis aestimares, id. ib. 5, 12: quod vulgo dicitur, e lege Julia litem anno et sex mensibus mori, Gai. Inst. 4, 104.—

2. In the phrase: litem suam facere, to make the cause his own, said,

(a). Litem suam facere, of an advocate who neglects the cause of his client and seeks his own advantage: quid, si cum pro altero dicas, litem tuam facias? Cic. de Or. 2, 75, 305.—

(b). Also of a judge who, out of favor or through bribery, pronounces an unjust sentence, or who turns aside from the questions strictly before him to express his own opinions or feelings through the judgment: debet enim judex attendere, ut cum certae pecuniae condemnatio posita sit, neque majoris neque minoris summa petita nummo condemnet, alioquin litem suam facit; item si taxatio posita sit, ne pluris condemnet quam taxatum sit, alias enim similiter litem suam facit, Gai. Inst. 2, 52: si judex litem suam fecerit, Dig. 44, 7, 4, 4; cf. ib. 5, 1, 15; so, trop.: nam et Varro satis aperte, quid dicere oporteret, edocuit; et ego adversus eum, qui doctus esse dicebatur, litem meam facere absens nolui, Gell. 10, 1.—

(g). Also of a judge who does not appear on the day appointed: inde ad comitium vadunt, ne litem suam faciant, C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—

C. The subject of an action at law, the matter in dispute: quibus res erat in controversia, ea vocabatur lis, Varr. L. L. 7, 93 Müll.: illud mihi mirum videri solet, tot homines statuere non potuisse, utrum rem an litem dici oporteret, Cic. Mur. 12, 27: lites severe aestimatae, id. ib. 20, 42: quo minus secundum eas tabulas lis detur, non recusamus, id. Rosc. Com. 1, 3: de tota lite pactionem facere, id. ib. 14, 40: in suam rem litem vertere, Liv. 3, 72: litem lite resolvere, to explain one obscure thing by another equally so, Hor. S. 2, 3, 103.