How to pronounce “res judicata”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (law) A legal claim that has already been decided in another lawsuit or proceeding, and therefore must be dismissed.
• (law) The legal doctrine that claims that a case already decided in a proceeding may not be brought in any later proceeding.

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