Res Incorporales

In the civil law. Incorporeal things; things which cannot be touched; such as those things which consist in right. Inst. 2. 2; Bracton, fols. 7b, 10b. Such things as the mind alone can perceive. RES INTEGRA (Lat. an entire thing; an entirely new or untouched matter). A term applied to those points of law which have not been decided, which are untouched by dictum or decision. 3 Mer. 269; 1 Burge, Confl. Laws, 241. RES INTER ALIOS ACTA (Lat.) A technical phrase which signifies acts of others or transactions between others. Neither the declarations nor any other acts of those who are mere strangers, or, as it is usually expressed, any res inter alios acta, are admissible in evidence against anyone. When the party agamst whom such acts are offered in evidence was privy to the act, the objection ceases; it is no longer res inter alios. 1 Starkie, Ev. 52; 3 Starkie, Ev. 1300; 4 Man. & G. 282. See 1 Mete. (Mass.) 55. RES INTER ALIOS ACTA ALTERI NOcere non debet. Things done between strangers ought not to injure those who are not parties to them. Co. Litt. 132; 3 Curt. C. C. (U. S.) 403; 11 Q. B. 1028. RES INTER ALIOS JUDICATAE NULlum aliis praejudicium faciant. Matters adjudged in a cause do not prejudice those who were not parties to it. Dig. 44. 2. 1.

In the civil law. Incorporeal things; things which cannot be touched; such as those things which consist in right Inst. 2, 2; Bract, fols. 7b, 10b. Such things as the mind alone can perceive.

Defined under Res in Black's Law Dictionary.