Handling paperwork with our comprehensive and user-friendly PDF editor is straightforward. A list pendens is a legal document filed in Pennsylvania to notify the public that a property is involved in a lawsuit.Included on this page are forms for filing civil complaints, private criminal complaints and notices of settlement when cases are privately resolved. "City" means the City of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Once MV filed suit and a lis pendens, the homeowner could not complete the sale of his real estate. The file name of the form corresponds to the section in the handbook where the form is found.