Lis pendens
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A suit pending; that legal process, in a suit regarding land, which amounts to legal notice to all the world that there is a dispute as to the title. In equity the filing of the bill and serving a subpœna creates a Its pendens, except when statutes require some record.
Stim. Law Gloss. See Boyd v. Emmons, 103 Ky. 393, 45 S. W. 364; Tinsley v. Rice, 105 Ga. 285, 31 S. E. 174; Bowen v. Kirkland, 17 Tex. Civ. App. 346, 44 S. W. 189; Hines v. Duncan, 79 Ala. 117, 58 Am. Rep. 580.
In the civil law.
A suit pending
A suit was not said to be pending before that stage of it called "litis contestatio, (q. v.) Mackeld.
Rom. Law, § 219; Calvin,