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settlement  

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  • The term settlement in modern legal systems has come to represent the voluntary cessation of a litigated action. Essentially, settlement is short for “settlement of a claim.”The concept of settlement has advocates and detractors. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Settlement]

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