estoppel by judgment
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 620 - Tait v. Western Maryland Railway Co. · 1933Most cited · 911 citing opinions
The scope of the estoppel of a judgment depends upon whether the question arises in a subsequent action between the same parties upon the same claim or demand or upon a different claim or demand. In the former case a judgment upon the merits is an absolute bar to the subsequent action. In the latter the inquiry is whether the point or question to be determined in the later action is the same as that litigated and determined in the original action.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The estoppel raised by the rendition of a valid judgment by a court having jurisdiction, which prevents the parties to the action, and ali who are in privity with them, from afterwards disputing or drawing into controversy the particular facts or issues on which the judgment was based or which were or might have been litigated in the action. 2 Bl. Judgm. § 504; State v. Torinus, 28 Minn. 175, 9 N. W. 725.
Defined under Estoppel in Black's Law Dictionary.