Lis Mota
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A controversy moved or begun. By this term is meant a dispute which has arisen upon 2 point or question which afterwards forms the issue upon which legal proceedings are instituted. After such controversy has arisen, (post litem motam,) it isheld, declarations as to pedigree, made by wembers of the family since deceased, are not adinissible.
See 4 Camp. 417; 6 Car. & P. 560.