Lis
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
I. A dispute, controversy; a suit. Lis mota: a controversy begun [before suit]; suit brought. Lis pendens: a suit pending; that legal process, in a suit regarding land, which amounts to legal notice to all the world that there is dispute as 1o the title; in equity, the filing of the bill and serving a subpoena creates a lis pendens, except when statutes require some record.