lis pendens

1. 1.

   a pending lawsuit

   Broaderlegal action

   law

Questions about lis pendens

What does lis pendens mean?

lis pendens means "a pending lawsuit".

Is lis pendens a common word?

lis pendens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.