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Decided, settled, adjudged, adjudicated, q. v. Res adjudicata, or res judicata. A thing adjudicated; a case decided; a matter settled. Plural, res adjudicatce or judioatce. 1 Cromwell v. Coimty of Sac, 94 U. S. 351-58 (1876), cases. Field, J.; ib. 364-66, cases; Lumber Company r. Buchtel, 101 id. 639 (1879); Litchfield v. Goodenow, 183 id. 660-51 (1887): 1 Greenl. Ev. § 623; Qflmer v. Morris, 30 F. E. 469 (1887), oases. 'Eussell u Place, 94 U. S. 608 (1876), cases. Field, J.; Corcoran v. Chesapeake, &o. Canal Co., ib. 745 (1876). See also Foye v. Patch, 133 Mass. 109-11 (1883), cases; Mo Calley v. Robinson, 70 Ala. 433 (1881); Moore v. City of Albany, 98 N. Y. 410 (1885); Withers v. Sims, 80 Va. 651 (1885); Bennitt v. Star Mining Co., 119 111. 14-15 ' WUson's Executor v. Been, 131 U. S. 536, 533 (1887). To make a matter res judicata there must be concurrence of four conditions: identity — in the thing sued for, of the cause of action, of the parties to the action, and of the quality in the persons.' Transit in rem judicatam. It passes into a thing adjudicated; it becomes a judgment. Applies to a contract upon which a judgment has been obtained. ^