Lis Pendens
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
<A suit pending; that legal process, in a suit regarding lant, which amounts te legal notice to all the world that there is adisputeas tothe litle, In equity the filing of the bill and serving a subpoena creales a dis pendens, except when statutes require some record. Stim, Law Gloss. In the civil law. A suit pending. A suit was not said to be pending before that stage of it called “titis contesiatio,” (gq. v.) Mackeld.
Rom. Law, § 219. Calvin.