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Identity of parties is not essential, the adjudication attaching to the res. See 1 Mete. (Mass.) 204. RES JUDICATA FACIT EX ALBO Nigrum, ex nigro album, ex curvo rectum, ex recto curvum. A thing adjudged makes white, black; black, white; the crooked, straight; the straight, crooked. 1 Bouv. Inst, note 840. RES JUDICATA PRO VERITATE ACCIpitur. A thing adjudged must be taken for truth. Co. Litt. 103; Dig. 50. 17. 207: 2 Kent, Comm. 120; 13 Mees. & W. C79. See "Res Judicata." RES MANCIPI (Lat.)

In Roman law. Those things which might be sold and alienated, or of which the property might be transferred from one person to another. The division of things into res mancipi and res nee mancipi was one of ancient origin, and it continued to a late period in the empire. Res mancipi (Ulph. Frag. xix.) are praedia in italico solo, both rustic and urban; also, jura rusticorum praediorum or servitutes, as via, iter, aquaeductus; also slaves, and four-footed animals, as oxen, horses, etc., gwoe collo dorsove domantur. Smith. To this list may be added children of Roman parents, who were, according to the old law, res mancipi. The distinction between res mancipi and nee mancipi was abolished by Justinian in his Code. Id.; Cooper, Inst. 442. Defined under Res Judicata in The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary.