Exceptio rei judicatae
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
An exception or plea of matter adjudged; a plea that the subject-matter of the action had been determined in a previous action.
Inst. 4, 13, 5.
This term is adopted by Bracton, and is constantly used in modem law to denote a defense founded upon a previous adjudication of the same matter. Bract, fols.
1006, 177; 2 Kent, Comm. 120.
A plea of a former recovery or judgment.