lis pendens

English Thesaurus

1. a pending lawsuit (noun.act)

hypernym	:	action, action at law, legal action,
definition	:	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 (noun.act)

domain category	:	jurisprudence, law,
definition	:	the collection of rules imposed by authority (noun.group)