Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Pendens
See LIS PENDENS.
lis alibi pendens
[Latin] A lawsuit pending elsewhere.
lis pendens
[Latin "a pending lawsuit"] 1. A pending lawsuit. 2. The jurisdiction, power, or control acquired by a court over property while a legal action is pending. 3. A notice, recorded in the chain of title to real property, required or permitted in some juris dictions to warn all persons that certain prop erty is the subject matter of litigation, and that any interests acquired during the pendency ofthe suit are subject to its outcome. - Alsotermed (in sense 3) notice of lis pendens; notice of pendency. Cf. PENDENTE LITE.
nominativus pendens
n. [Latin "nominative hanging"] In a sentence, a nominative phrase that is not grammatically connected with the rest of the sentence. - Also termed nominative absolute."Nominativus pendens . . . . The opening words in the form of a deed inter partes ('This deed,' etc., down to 'whereas'), though an intelligible and convenient part of the deed, having regard to the predicate 'witnesseth' or 'nor this deed witnesseth,' are sometimes of this kind." William A. Jowitt, The Dictionary of English Law 1230 (1959).
notice of lis pendens.
See LIS PENDENS (3)