Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Interest reipublicae res judicatas non rescindi.
It is in the interest of the state that judgments already given not be rescinded.
Res judicata facit ex albo nigrum, ex nigro album, ex curvo rectum, ex recto curvum
A matter adjudged makes white black; black white; the crooked straight; the straight crooked.
Res judicata pro veritate accipitur
A matter adjudged is taken for truth.
Sententia facit jus, et res judicata pro veritate accipitur
The judgment creates the right, and what is adjudicated is taken for truth.
res judicata
.[Latin "a thing adjudicated"] 1. An issue that has been definitively settled by judicial decision. 2. An affirmative defense barring the same parties from litigating a second lawsuit on the same claim, or any other claim arising from the same transaction or series of transactions and that could have been - but was not - raised in the first suit. ( The three essential elements are (1) an earlier decision on the issue, (2) a final judgment on the merits, and (3) the involvement of the same parties, or parties in privity with the original parties. Restatement (Second) of Judgments ยงยง 17, 24 (1982). - Also termed res adjudicata; claim preclusion. Cf. COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL.