Legal Definition and Related Resources of Lis mota
Meaning of Lis mota
(Lat.) A controversy begun i. e., on the point at issue, and prior to commencement of judicial proceedings. Such controversy is taken to arise on the advent of ttie state of facts on which the claim rests; and after such controversy has arisen (post litem motam), no declarations of deceased members of family as to matters of pedigree are admissible. 6 Car. & P. 560; 4 Campb. 417; 2 Russ. & M. 161; Greenl. Ev. §§ 131, 132; 4 Maule & S. 497; 1 Pet. (U. S.) 337; 26 Barb. (N. Y.) 177.
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Lis mota in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
A controversy begun.
Note: This legal definition of Lis mota in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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