NAGABHUSHANAMMAL (D) BY LRS v. C. CHANDIKESWARAL!NGAM
Case at a glance
Outcome
Disposed of
The appeals are disposed of accordingly
Provisions considered
Judgment
HELD : 1.1 'Res jll(/iC{lf(I' literally means a "thing adjudicated" or "an issue that has been definitively settled by judicial decision;'. The principle operates as a bar to try the same issue once over. It aims to prevent multiplicity of proceedings and accords finality to an issue, which directly and substantially had arisen in the former suit between. the same parties or their G privies and was decided 'and has become final, so that the parties are not vexed twice over; vexatious litigation is put an end to and valuable time of the court is saved. [Para 14] [25-A-B] Sulochanna Amma v. Narayanan Nair (1994) 2 SCC 14: 1993 (2) Suppl. SCR 520; Jaswant Singh v. H 19 20 A B c D E F G H SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2016) 2 S.C.R.
Questions this judgment answers
What did the Court decide in this case?
The Court recorded the following disposition: The appeals are disposed of accordingly
Which statutory provisions did this judgment involve?
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.
Precedent status how later indexed judgments have treated this case
No known negative treatment found in the Courts & Cases corpus.
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