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LIS PENDENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lis pendens mean?
• LIS PENDENS (noun)
The noun LIS PENDENS has 1 sense:
1. a pending lawsuit
Familiarity information: LIS PENDENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A pending lawsuit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lis pendens" is a kind of...):
action; action at law; legal action (a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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