0 a person who is fighting a legal case
1 a person or organization that is involved in a case that is being discussed in a court of law:
Even a crude distinction between aristocratic, non-aristocratic rural, and urban litigants respectively suggests some interesting and marked patterns.
A challenge that makes reference both to rules and to the litigant's own situation.
Thus, litigants were tried exclusively by tribal judges chosen by the disputing parties themselves.
Such a top down conclusion would ignore the vital role of litigants in the production of knowledge.
But won't a litigant (say, the defendant) have reason to make arguments of policy if his arguments of principle aren't ver y strong?
The article then discusses the responses of litigants to the new judicial discourse and the legal culture in which it was embedded.
Those reasons may not be as strong as the reasons that apply to altruistic litigants.
That is, the altruistic litigant must argue its case on the basis of its own existing entitlements.
