What is Res judicata?
'''Res judicata''' is a legal term which is used in civil procedures. No [[Court (law)|court]] shall try any suit or issue in which the matter directly and substantially in issue has been directly and substantially in issue in a former suit between the same parties, or between parties under whom they or any of them claim, litigating under the same title, in a court competent to try such subsequent suit or the suit in which such issue has been subsequently raised, and has been heard and finally decided by such court. [[Category:Legal terms]]