This research guide includes information and resources on lis pendens. Latin for "pending lawsuit," lis pendens is "the jurisdiction, power, or control.Visit your county recorder's office and ask to file a Notice of Lis Pendens. You can record a Notice of Withdrawal of Lis Pendens. This is done via pleading. (c) The county clerk shall record the notice in a lis pendens record. Superior Court (1981) 29 Cal.